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THE    FIRST    PRINTED 


ENGLISH  NEW  TESTAMENT. 


TRANSLATED   BY 


WILLIAM      TYNDALE. 


PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHED    FROM    THE    UNIQUE    FRAGMENT,    NOW    IN 
THE    GRENVILLE    COLLECTION,    BRITISH    MUSEUM. 


EDITED   BY 

EDWARD    ARBER, 

Associate,  Kin^s  College,  London,  F.R.G.S.,  ^r^c. 


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The  Preface. 

Evidence  connected  with   the  first  Two  Editions  of  the  EngUsh 
New  Testaments,  viz.  :  in  Quarto  and  in  Octavo. 

I.  William  Tyndale's  antecedent  Career    .      .      .      .      .      .      .      .  7-18 

II.  The  Printing  at  Cologne 18-24 

III.  The  Printing  at  Worms 24-27 

IV.  William  Roy's  connection  with  these  Editions 27-36 

V.  The  Landing  and  Distribution  in  England 36-47 

VI.  The  Persecution  in  England 48-64 

Typographical  and  Literary  Evidence  connected  with  the  present 
Fragment. 
I.  It  was   printed  for   Tyndale  by   Peter  Quentel  at   Cologne, 

before  1526 65 

II.  It  is  not  a  portion  of  the  separate  Gospel  of  Matthew,  printed  previous 

to  that  year 65 

III.  It  is  therefore  certainly  a  fragment  of  the  Quarto 66 

Is  the  Quarto  a  translation  of  Luther's  German  version  ? 

Text 67 

The  prologge 67 

Inner  Marginal  References 67 

Outer  Marginal  Glosses 68 

The  Photo-lithographed  Text, 

[The  Title  Page  is  wanting  in  the  Grenville  Copy.] 

The  prologge  [by  Tyndale] 1-14 

The  bokes  conteyned  in  the  newe  Testament 15 

Woodcut  [by  Anthon  von  Worms]     . 16 

The  Gospel  according  to  St.  Matthew  : 

Chapters  I. — XXII.  12  [where  the  Fragment  ends] 17-62 

Part  of  the  Title  Page  of  Rupertus'  In  Matthaeiim  : 

Printed  by  Peter  Quentel  at  Cologne,  between  March  and  July  1526      .  64 


TRANSLATED  BY 

WILLIAM  TYNDALE. 

"Thk  true  seruaunt  and  Martyr  of  God    .     .    .     Who  for  his  notable  paynes  and  trauell  may  well  be 
called  the  Apostle  of  England  in  this  our  latter  age."— John  Fox  ;  Actes  and  Monuntentes,  p.  1224,  Ed. 


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e  "put  forthe  certaine  bookes  of  the  olde  Testament  and  the  hole  newe  Testament,  into  the  En<Tlyshe 
tongue  .  .  .  whereby  sence  thankes  be  geuen  to  God,  the  dore  of  lyght  into  the  scriptures,  hath  and 
dailie  is  more  and  more  opened  unto  vs,  the  whiche  before  was  many  yeares  closed  in  darkenes." — 
Anonymous  Writer  :  Idtm,  p.  514,  Ed.  1563. 


PREFACE. 

jITH  reverence,  almost  with  awe,  we  here  offer  to  the  reader 
the  photographic  likeness  of  a  priceless  gem  in  English  litera- 
ture. It  is  the  unique  Fragment  of  that  first  and  fontal  edition 
of  the  English  New  Testament,  to  which  Mr.  Anderson  refers 
as  "the  veritable  origin  of  all  those  millions  of  English 
Scriptures  now  being  read  in  so  many  different  and  distant 
parts  of  the  globe — parts,  utterly  unknown  to  our  immortal  Translator, 
when  he  sent  the  sheets  to  the  press — parts,  then  untrodden  by  any 
Englishman — parts,  then  undiscovered."  ^ 
The  first  Printed  portions  of  any  part  of  the  English  Scriptures  were 
the  Gospels  of  Matthew  and  Mark,  probably  separately  printed  by  Tyn- 
dale,  somewhere  on  the  Continent,^  in  1524-5.  While  there  is  abundant 
evidence  of  the  former  existence  of  these  two  Gospels,  no  copies  of  them 
whatever  are  now  known  to  be  extant.  After  these,  in  time,  came  simul- 
taneously his  first  two  editions  of  the  New  Testament — one  in  Quarto,  * 
with  glosses  or  marginal  notes  ;  the  other  in  Octavo,  without  glosses — one 
of  which,  perhaps  both,  were  in  England  in  March  1526.  Of  the  Quarto 
edition,  there  is  only  the  Fragment,  here  photo-lithographed,  known ;  of  the 
Octavo,  there  is  one  perfect  text  in  the  librar)'^  of  the  Baptist  College  at 
Bristol,  and  a  portion  of  another  in  that  of  St.  Paul's  Cathedral,  London. 
These  three  copies,  all  denuded  of  their  title  pages,  are  the  earliest  im- 
pressions of  any  portion  of  the  printed  Bible  in  the  English  tongue,  now 
known  to  be  in  existence. 

-  'Annals  of  the  English  Bible.'  vol.  L,/.  74,  Ed.  1845. 

'  The  Rev.  R.  Demaus,  who  is  writing  z.  Life  of  Tyndale,  which  is  to  appear  this  year,  has  noticed  that 
no  printer  is  known  to  have  been  at  Hamburgh  about  these  years. 


6  PRE  FA  CE. 

Looking  over  the  present  photo-lithographed  Text,  the  reader  will  readily 
mark  the  total  absence  of  all  those  distinctions  which  have  always  been  used 
for  the  separation  of  books,  and  the  discernment  from  each  other  of  their 
several  editions.  It  wants  the  names  of  Translator  or  Editor,  of  the 
Printer,  and  the  Place  of  printing,  together  with  the  Date  of  printing. 
As  wx  now  have  it,  it  is  an  unowned,  unavowed  fragment  of  black  letter 
English.  There  is  however  an  accumulation  of  evidence,  perfectly  over- 
whelming, which  assures  us,  beyond  the  possibility  of  a  doubt,  that  this 
fragment  is  verily  and  indeed  a  part  of  the  earliest  edition  of  the  Neiu 
Testament,  ever  printed  in  the  English  language.  It  is  our  duty  here  to 
exhibit  this  evidence. 

At  the  outset,  however,  we  must  limit  this  testimony  to  these  first  two 
editions  only.  Afterwards  came  'thicker  and  threefold'  into  England, 
editions  both  of  the  New  Testament  and  of  the  Bible.  Some  of  these 
attempted  an  accurate  authenticity,  being  produced  solely  from  a  love  to 
God  and  Truth  ;  others  were  surreptitiously  and  often  carelessly  produced 
by  speculators,  for  the  mere  sake  of  money.  All  these  can  only  be  rightly 
analysed  and  adjudged  in  a  thorough  and  complete  '  History  of  the  English 
Bible,  both  manuscript  and  printed.'  A  work  yet  to  be  written ;  though 
the  way  has  been  made  smoother  by  such  pioneers  as  Rev.  J.  Forshall, 
Sir  F.  Madden;  Revs.  J.  Lewis,  H.  Cotton,  D.C.L.,  Canon  B.  F.^Vest- 
COTT ;  Messrs.  Lea  Wilson,  C.  Anderson,  G.  Offor,  F.  Fry,  and  others. 
Such  a  work  would  be  based  upon  deep  sacred  interest.  It  would  record 
a  marvellous  story  of  human  heroism  and  self  denial,  of  untiring  effort  and 
labour.  It  would  catalogue  all  known  editions,  all  accessible  early  copies, 
and  point  out  their  various  differences.  And,  with  it,  would  be  largely  in- 
terwoven the  political  and  social  history  of  what  may  be  looked  upon  as 
our  Biblical  Century — that  hundred  years,  roughly  speaking,  of  incessant 
Biblical  translation  and  revision,  which  was  cro\vned  with  that  literary 
marvel,  the  present  authorized  version.  What  Froude  has  done  for  the 
Court  and  Political  History  of  our  Reformation ;  what  Macaulay  for  twenty 
years  later  on  in  our  National  History ;  might,  with  even  a  more  interesting 
subject — the  most  interesting  of  all  literary  subjects  to  many — be  done  for 
the  Story  of  the  Word  of  God  in  English.  Is  any  man  so  bold,  so  earnest, 
so  devout,  as  to  attempt  this  work  ?^ 

In  adducing  this  Testimony  from  original  sources,  and  in  eliminating  it 
from  the  confusion  of  many  conflicting  and  perplexing  statements,  it  will 
be  convenient  to  quote  each  passage,  once  for  all,  in  its  principal  place ; 
though  it  may  occasionally  anticipate  somewhat  in  time,  or  contain  ex- 
traneous matter. 

1  Such  a  worker  may  consult  with  advantage  the  manuscript  transcripts  and  notes  of  Mr.  OfFor,  no- , 
Add.  MSS.  26,670-5,  in  the  British  Museum. 


WILLIAM  TYNDALES  ANTECEDENT  CAREER.  7 

We  may  group  the  evidence — 

As  IT  RELATES  TO  THE  FIRST  TWO  EDITIONS. 
As  IT  VERIFIES  THE  FRAGMENT,   HERE  REPRODUCED. 

As  to  the  two  editions,  it  may  be  arranged  under — 

I.  William  Tyndale's  antecedaU  career. 

II.  The  prifiting  at  Cologne. 

III.  The  printing  at  Worms. 

IV.  William  Roys  connection  with  these  editions. 
V.  The  landing  and  distribution  in  Engla?id. 

VI.  The  persecution  in  England. 

As  relates  to  the  existing  fragment ;  there  is  possibly,  only — 

VII.  Typographical  and  Literary  evidence. 

We  must  also  premise,  that,  in  judging  of  moral  actions  by  the  use  made 
of  money,  we  have  followed  the  usual  estimate,  in  a  matter  so  hard  to 
determine  absolutely ;  that  the  multiple  of  Fifteen  approximately  represents 
the  increased  power  of  the  same  standard  coin  in  purchasing  the  neces- 
saries of  life  (food,  raiment,  rent,  books,  and  the  like),  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  VIII.,  as  compared  with  the  present  day.  So  that  £,\o  then, 
represents  ;;^i5o  now;  i6j'.  4//.  then,  j£,\2  ^s.  od.  now;  and  so  on.  We 
have  inserted  the  modem  equivalent,  upon  this  estimate,  within  [  ],  after 
every  sum  mentioned.  • 

I.  William  Tyndales  antecedent  Career. 

1.  Tyndale  is  believed  to  have  been  bom  either  at  Stinchcomb  or  North 
NiBLEY,  in  the  hundred  of  Berkeley,  in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  not 
earlier  than  1484-6  -^  where  his  family,  during  the  wars  of  the  Roses,  had 
for  a  time  adopted,  probably  for  the  sake  of  concealment,  the  name — 
variously  spelt—  of  Hitchins  or  Hotchyns. 

2.  The  authority  for  the  early  life  of  our  great  Englishman  is  John  Fox ; 
in  the  editions  of  his  Ades  and  Monumentes,  etc.,  published  during  his  life- 
rime,  viz.,  1563, 1570, 1576,  1583;  and  in  the  account  partly  extracted  there- 
from and  prefixed  to  The  Workes  of  Tyndale,  Frith,  and  Barnes,  1573,  fol. 

1  Mr.  Dade  Roberts,  of  Painswick  [d.  1821]  in  1561,  the  estate  of  Melksham's  Court,  Sunchcombe, 

Lysons  •  Topog.  Coll.'   Add.  MSS.  9458.  Plut.  fol.  from  Thomas,  Lord  Wentworth,  was  the  Transla- 

63-^ ;    in   the    British    Museum.      Mr.    Roberts  tor's  nephew, 
thought  that  Richard  Tyndale,  who  purchased,  in 


WILLIAM  TYNDALE'S  ANTECEDENT  CAREER. 


A  comparison  of  these  editions  evidences  two  narratives.  The  earlier  one 
is  a  brief  and  graphic  Memorandum, — probably  more  correct  as  to  the 
sequence  of  events — written  from  memory  by  a  confidential  friend,  who 
had  his  infonnation  from  Tyndale's  own  lips,  probably  during  his  stay  in 
London :  which  Memorandum  evidently  preserves  the  very  words  of 
Tyndale.  The  later  account  is  written  impersonally,  and  amplified  after 
Fox's  vehement  manner.     We  here  place  the  two  side  by  side. 


Fox's  First  Account,  1563. 

Fox  gives  the  following  summary  of  Tyndale's 
career  ;  which  may  be  taken  as  expressing  his  own 
estitnate  oftJie  Translator. 

This  good  man  William  Tyndall  the  faithfull 
minister  and  constant  martyr  of  Christe,  was  borne 
vpon  ye  borders  of  wales,  and  brought  vp  euen  of  a 
childe  in  the  vniuersitie  of  Oxford,^  being  alwayes 
of  moste  vpright  maners  and  pure  lyfe.  This  man 
as  soneas  he  had  receyuedsome  taste  and  sauour  of 
the  diuine  truth  by  reading  of  Luthers  bookes,*  he 
thought  no  labour  or  trauaill  to  be  pretermitted  to 
allure  and  to  drawe  all  other  englishmen  to  the 
like  knowledge  and  vnderstanding.  For  the  better 
and  more  easy  accomplishing  wherof,  he  first 
together  with  Frith,  labored  in  translating  the  olde 
and  newe  Testament  into  English,  a  most  hol- 
some  worke  for  the  Englishnation,  he  wrote  also 
diuers  other  workes  of  Sundry  tytles,  amon[g]st  the 
whiche  is  that  moste  worthy  monument  of  his  in- 
tituled Thobedience  of  a  christen  man,  wherin  with 
a  synguler  dexteritie  he  instructeth  all  menne  to 
the  office  and  dutie  of  christian  obedience,  with 
diuerse  conflictes  and  disputations  against  More 
and  others,  no  lesse  delectable  as  also  fmtefuU  to 
be  read.    p.  520.  Ed,  1563. 

[Here  begins  the  Memorandum  of  Tyndalis 
friend."] 

First  mayster  Tyndall  beyng  in  seruice  with  one 
maister  Welche*  a  Knyght,  who  maried  a  doughter 


Fox's  Second  Account,  1570. 

William  Tyndall  the  faythfull  Minister  and  con- 
stant Martyr  of  Christ,  was  borne  about  the  borders 
of  Wales,  and.  brought  vp  from  a  child  in  the 
Vniuersitie  of  Oxford,  where  he  by  long  continu- 
ance grew  vp,  and  increased  as  wel  in  the  know- 
ledge of  tounges,  and  other  liberall  Artes,  as  es- 
pecially in  the  knowledge  of  the  Scriptures :  where- 
unto  his  mynde  was  singularly  addicted  '.^  In  so 
much  that  he  lying  then  at  Magdalene  Hall,  read 
priuely  to  certeine  studentes  and  felowes  of  Mag- 
dalene Colledge,  some  parcell  of  Diuinitie :  in- 
structing them  in  the  knowledge  and  truth  of  the 
Scriptures.  Whose  maners  also  and  conuersation 
being  correspondent  to  the  same,  were  such  that 
all  they  which  knew  hym,  reputed  and  estemed 
hym  to  bee  a  man  of  most  vertuous  disposition, 
and  of  life  vnspotted. 

Thus  he  in  the  Vniuersitie  of  Oxford  ^  increasing 
more  and  more  in  learnyng,  and  procedyng  in  de- 
grees of  the  scholes,  spying  hys  time,  remoued 
from  thence  to  the  Vniuersitie  of  Cambridge,^  where 
after  hee  had  lykewise  made  his  abode  a  certaine 
space,  being  now  further  ripened  in  the  knowledge 
of  Gods  word,  leauyng  that  Vniuersitie  also,  he 
resorted  to  one  M.  WelcJie^  a  knyght  of  Glocester- 


1  The  dates  of  Tyndale's  connection  with  Oxford 
and  Cambridge  have  not  yet  been  recovered.  See 
Wood,  A  thents  Oxonienses,  «'.  94,  -Ed.  1813,  and 
C.  H.  and  T.  Cooper,  Atfietue  Cantabrigienses,  i. 
59,  Ed.  1858. 

*  If  Tyndale  went  a  '  child '  to  Oxford,  and  was 
there  '  singularly  addicted '  to  the  study  of  Scrip- 
ture, it  must  have  been  long  before  Luther  attached 
his  ninety-five  Theses  to  the  door  of  the  church  at 
Wittenberg  (31  October,  1517) ;  which  protest  first 
gave  him  a  European  reputation.  Tyndale  may 
Have  been  confirmed  in  his  opinions  by  Luther ;  and 
we  shall  see  one  of  the  works  of  Erasmus  was  so 
congenial  to  him  that  he  translated  it :  but  a  con- 
sideration that  he  must  have  been  about  30  years 
of  age,  and  a  priest,  when  Ltlther.attacked  the  sale 
of  indulgences,  is  conclusive  that  he  was  but  fol- 
lowing the  dictates  of  his  own  mind  and  conscience 
when  m  early  life  he  searched  after  truth  in  the 
Revelation  of  God,  and/iot  among  the  writings  of 


3  Sir  John  Walsh,  son  and  heir  of  John  Walsh, 
married  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Pointz,  and 
having  served  the  office  of  high  sheriff  of  Glouces- 
tershire, 18  and  27,  H.  8  \i.e.  1526  and  1535]  died 
seized  of  Little  Sodbury  in  the  38th  year  of  the 
same  reign  [22  April  1546 — 28  Jan.  1547],  leaving 
Maurice  his  son  thirty  years  old,  who  had  the 
livery  of  the  manor  the  same  year,  and  married 

Bridget,    daughter  of  Vause.      S.    Rudder, 

Hist,  of  Gloucestershire,  p.  677,  Ed.  i779._ 

Little  Sodbury  is  two  miles  from  Chipping  Sod- 
bury, and  fifteen  from  Bristol,  on  the  Bath  and 
Chippenham  road.  •  _•  _•  The  old  church  of  St. 
Adelme  was  a  stone  building  in  the  Early  English 
style,  with  tower,  nave,  transept,  and  porch,  and 
situate  adjacent  to  the  manor  house  ;  but  having 
fallen  into  decay,  a  new  church  was  erected  in 
1850  on  a  more  convenient  site,  which  church, 
with  the  addition  of  a  vestry  room  and  north  aisle, 
was  as  nearly  as  possible  a  restoration  of  the  old 
one.    Keliys  Gloucestershire, p.  634.,  Ed,  1870. 


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IVILLTAM  TYNDALES  ANTECEDENT  CAREER. 


Fox's  First  Account,  1563. 
of  SyT  Robert  Pointz,  a  knyght  dwcllyng  in  GIo- 
ccstr  shyrc,  the  saydc  Tyndall  beyng  scholemaister 
to  the  sayde  maistcr  Welche  his  children,'  and  being 
in  good  fauour  with  his  maister,  sat  moste  commonly 
at  his  owne  table,  whiche  kept  a  good  ordinary, 
hauing  resort  to  hym,  many  tymes  diuerse  great 
beneficed  men,  as  Abbots,  Deancs,  Archedeacons, 
and  other  diuerse  doctors,  and  learned  men. 
Amongest  whome  commonly  was  talke  of  learning, 
as  well  of  Luther  and  Erasmus  Roterodamus,  as  of 
opinions  in  the  scripture.  The  saide  Maister  Tyn- 
dall being  learned  and  which  had  bene  a  studient 
of  diuinitie  in  Cambridge,*  ai^  hadde  therein  taken 
degree  of  schole,  did  many  times  therin  shewe  his 
mynde  and  leamyng,  wherein  as  those  men  and 
Tyndall  did  varie  in  opinions  and  iudgementes, 
then  maister  Tyndall  would  shewe  them  on  the 
booke  the  places,  by  open  and  manifest  scripture, 
the  whiche  continued  for  a  certaine  season,  diuerse 
and  sondry  tymes  vntyll  in  the  continuance  thereof, 
those  great  beneficed  doctors  waxed  weary  and 
bare  a  secAit  grudge  in  their  hartes  against  maister 
Tyndale. 

So  vpon  a  tyme  some  of  those  beneficed  doctors, 
had  maister  Welch  and  the  Lady  his  wyfe,  at  a 
supper  or  banquet,  there  hauinge  amonge  them 
talke  at  wyll  without  any  gainsaiyng,  and  the 
supper  or  banquet  beyng  done,  and  maister  Welche 
and  the  Lady  his  wyfe,  came  home.  They  called 
for  maister  Tyndall,  and  talked  with  hym,  of  suche 
communication  as  hadde  bene,  where  they  came 
fro,  and  of  their  opinions.  Maister  Tyndall  there- 
unto" made  aunswere  agreable  to  the  truthe  of  gods 
worde,  and  in  reprouing  of  their  false  opinions. 
The  Lady  Welche  being  a  stoute  woman,  and  as 
maister  Tyndal  did  reporte*  her  to  be  wise,  beyng 
there  no  more  but  they*  three,  maister  Welche  his 
wyfe  and  maister  Tyndall.'  Well  sayde  she,  there 
was  suche  a  doctor,  he  may  dispende  CC.  pounde 
[,£yxx>\  by  the  yeare,  an  other  one  hundred  pounde 
[;6i50o],and  an  other  three  hundreth  pounde  [^4500], 
and  what  thynke  ye,  were  it  reason  that  we  should 
beleue  you  before  them  so  great  learned  and  bene- 
ficed men.*  Maister  Tyndall  hearyng  her,  gaue  her 
no  aunswere,  nor  after  that,  had  but  small  argu- 
mentes  against  suche,  for  he  perceiued  it  would  not 


Fox's  Second  Account,  1570. 


shyre,  and  was  there  scholemaster  to  his  children,' 
and  in  good  fauour  with  his  mxstcr.  This  Gentle- 
man, as  hee  kept  a  good  ordinarie  commonly  at  his 
table,  there  resorted  to  hym  many  times  sondry 
Abbots,  Dcanes,  Archdeacons,  with  other  diuers 
Doctors  and  great  beneficed  men  :  who  there  toge- 
ther with  M.  Tytidall  sittyng  at  the  same  table,  did 
vse  many  tymes  to  enter  communication  and  talke 
of  learned  men,  as  of  Lutlur  and  of  Erasmus : 
Also  of  diuers  other  controuersies  and  questions 
vpon  the  Scripture. 

Then  M.  Tyndall,  as  he  was  learned  and  well 
practised  in  Gods  matters,  so  he  spared  not  to 
shewe  vnto  them  simply  and  playnly  hys  iudgement 
in  matters,  as  he  thought :  and  when  as  they  at  any 
tyme  did  varye  from  Tyndall  in  opinions  and  iudge- 
ment, he  would  shewe  them  in  the  booke,  and  lay 
plainly  before  them  the  open  and  manifest  places  of 
ye  Scriptures,  to  confute  their  erours,  and  to  con- 
firme  his  sayinges.  And  thus  continued  they  for  a 
certaine  season,  reasonyng  and  contending  togethex 
diuers  and  sundry  tymes,  till  at  length  they  waxed 
wery,  and  bare  a  secret  grudge  in  their  hartes 
agaynst  hym. 

Not  long  after  this,  it  happened  that  certaine 
of  these  great  Doctours  had  inuited  M.  Welclie 
and  hys  wife  to  a  banket :  where  they  had  talke  at 
will  and  pleasure,  vttering  their  blyndes  and 
ignoraunce  without  any  resistance  or  gaynsaying. 
Then  M.  Welche  and  hys  wife  comming  home 
and  calling  for  M.  Tyndall,  began  to  reason  with 
him  about  those  matters,  wherof  ye  priestes  had 
talked  before  at  theyr  banket.  M.  Tyndall  aunswer- 
ing  by  scriptures,  mayntayned  the  truth,  and  re- 
proued  theyr  false  opinions.  Then  sayd  the  Lady 
Welch,  a  stout  and  a  wyse  woman  (as  Tyndall  re- 
ported) Well  (sayd  she)  there  was  such  a  Doctor 
which  may  dispend  a  C.  li.  [hundred  pounds=;f  1500] 
and  an  other,  ij.  C.  li.  [two  hundred  pounds =;£3ooo] 
and  an  other,  iij.  C.  li.  [three hundred  pounds =;^4 500] 
and  what?  were  it  reaSon,  thinke  you,  that  we  should 
beleue  you  before  them  ?  ♦  M.  Tyndall  gaue  her  no 
aunswere  at  that  time,  nor  also  after  that  (because 
he  sawe  it  would  not  auayle)  he  talked  but  litle  in 
those  matters.  At  that  tyme  he  was  about  the 
translation  of  a  booke  called  Enchiridion  militis 
ChristiaHi?v\iixs^  beyng^  translated,  he  dclyuered 


'  If  Maurice,  bom  in  1516,  was  the  eldest  born 
son  of  Sir  J.  Walsh,  Tj-ndalc's  connection  with  his 
family  as  tutor  must  necessarily  have  been  short ; 
probably  at  most  the  two  or  three  years  1531-3. 

*NoUx,p.  8. 


»  Graphic  points  showing  the  narrative  to  be  at 
first  hand. 

♦  What  unconscious  satire  ! 

*  That  is.  Enchiridion  Militis  Ckristiani  [The 
Pocket  Dagger  of  the  Christian  Soldier]  written  by 

B 


lO 


WILLIAM  TYNDALE'S  ANTECEDENT  CAREER. 


Fox's  First  Account,  1563. 

helpe  in  effect  to  the  contrary.  But  then  did  he 
translate  into  Englyshe  a  booke  called  as  P  remem- 
ber Enchiridion  militis  Ckrisiiani.^  The  whiche 
being  translated,  deliuered  to  his  maister  and  Lady. 
And  after  they  hadde  read  that  booke,  those  great 
prelates  were  no  more  so  often  called  to  the  house, 
nor  when  they  came,  had  the  cheare  nor  counten- 
ance as  they  were  wont  to  haue,  the  whiche  they 
did  well  perceiue,  and  that  it  was  by  the  meanes 
and  incensing  of  maister  Tyndall,  and  at  the  last 
came  no  more  there. 


After  that,  when  there  was  a  sj'tting  of  the  by- 
shops  comissarie  or  chauncelor :  And  warning  was 
g^uen  to  ye  priests  to  apeare,  maister  Tindal  was 
also  warned  to  be  there.  And  whether  he  had 
knowledge  by  their  threa[t]ning,  or  yat  he  did  sus- 
pect yat  thei  would  lay  to  his  charge,  it  is  not  now 
perfitly  in  my  mynde,but  thus  he  tolde  me,i  that  he 
doubted  their  examinations,  so  that  he  in  his  going 
thetherwardes  prayed  in  his  minde  hastely  to  God' 
to  strengthen  him,  to  stande  faste  in  the  truthe  of 
his  worde,  so  he  being  there  before  them,  they 
layde  sore  to  his  charge,  sayng  he  was  an  heretike 
in  Sophistry,  an  heretike  in  Logike,  an  heretike  in 
his  diuinitie,  and  so  continueth.  But  they  sayde 
vnto  hym,  you  beare  your  selfe  boldely  of  the 
Gentlemen  here  in  this  countrey,  but  you  shall  be 
otherwyse  talked  with.  Then  maister  Tj'ndal  aun- 
swered  them.  I  am  contente  that  you  bryng  me 
where  you  wyll  into  anye  countrey  within  England, 
getting  me  x.  pound  [;^iso]  a  yeare  to  lyue  with. 
So  you  bynde  me  to  nothing  but  to  teache  children 
and  preache.  Then  had  they  nothing  more  to  saye 
to  hym,  and  thus  he  departed  and  went  home  to 
his  maister  agayne. 

There  dwelt  not  far  of  an  olde  doctour  that  had 
bene  Archechauncelour  to  a  byshoppe,  the  whiche 
was  of  olde  familiar  acquaintaunce  with  maister 
Tyndal,  who  also  fauoured  him  well,  to  whome 


Fox's  Second  Account,  1570. 

to  his  Maister  and  Lady.  Who  after  they  had  read 
and  well  perused  the  same,  the  Doctorly  Prelates 
were  no  more  so  often  called  to  the  house,  neither 
had  they  the  cheare  and  countenaunce  when  they 
came,  as  before  they  had.  Which  thyng  they  mark- 
yng  and  well  perceiuing,  and  supposing  no  lesse  but 
it  came  by  the  meanes  of  M.  Tyndall,  refrayned 
them  selues.andat  last  vtterly  withdrew  themselues, 
and  came  no  more  there. 


As  this  grewe  on,  the  Priestes  of  the  countrey 
clustring  together,  began  to  grudge  and  storme 
against  Tyndall,  rayhng  agaynst  hym  in  alehouses 
and  other  places.  Of  whom  Tyndall  him  self  in 
his  prologue  before  ye  first  booke  of  Moses.    .    . 

[  The  etitire  Prologue  is  reprinted  below. "] 

It  folowed  not  long  after  this,  that  there  was  a 
sittyng  of  the  bishops  Chancellour  appointed,  and 
warnyng  was  giuen  to  the  Priestes  to  appeare : 
amongest  whom  M.  Tyndall  was  also  warned  to 
bee  there.  And  whether  he  had  any  misdoubt  by 
their  threatnynges,  or  knowledge  giuen  him  that 
they  would  lay  some  thinges  to  his  charge,  it  is 
vncerteine :  but  certein  this  is  (as  he  hym  self 
declared)  that  he  doubted  their  priuye  accusations : 
so  that  he  by  the  way  in  goyng  thether  wardes,  cryed 
in  hys  mynde  hart[e]ly  to  God,  to  gyuehim  strength 
fast  to  stand  in  the  truth  of  hys  worde. 

Then  when  the  tyme  came  of  hys  appearaunce 
before  the  Chancellour,  he  threatned  him  greuously, 
reuilyng  and  ratyng  hym  as  though  hee  had  bene  a 
dogge,  and  layd  to  his  charge  many  thynges,  whereof 
no  accuser  yet  could  be  brought  forth  (as  commonly 
their  maner  is,  not  to  bryng  foorththe  accuser)  not- 
withstandyng  that  the  Priestes  of  the  countrey  the 
same  tyme  were  there  present.  [This  is  taken 
from  the  Prologue :  see/urther  on.]  And  thus  M, 
Tyndall  after  those  examinations  escapyng  out  of 
their  handes,  departed  home  and  returned  to  his 
master  agayne. 

There  dwelt  not  farre  of  a  certaine  Doctour  that 
had  ben  an  old  Chauncellour  before  to  a  Byshop, 
who  had  ben  of  old  familiar  acquayntance  with 
M,    Tyttdall  and  also   fauored  hym  well.     Vnto 


Erasmus  at  Audomarum  [St.  Omer]  in  1501.  'It 
openly  taught  ...  that  the  true  Christian's  re- 
ligion, instead  of  consisting  in  the  acceptance  of 
scholastic  dogmas,  or  the  performance  of  outward 
rites  and  ceremonies,  really  consists  in  a  true  self 
sacrificing  loyalty  to  Christ,  his  ever  living  Prince  ; 
that  life  is  a  warfare,  and  that  the  Christian  must 


sacrifice  his  evil  lusts  and  passions,  and  spend  his 
strength,  not  in  the  pursuit  of  his  own  pleasure, 
but  in  active  service  of  his  Prince.'  F.  Seebohm, 
The  Oxford  Reformers,  etc.,  p.  173,  Ed.  1869. 

1  Note  3,  p.  9. 

•  Note  StP'  9- 


WILLIAM  TYND ALE'S  ANTECEDENT  CAREER. 


1 1 


Fox's  First  Account,  1563.  • 

maister  Tyndall  went  and  op[en]ed  his  mynde  vpon 
diuerse  questions  of  the  scriptures,  for  he  durst 
boldly  open  vnto  hymTiis  mynde.  That  auncient 
doctor  saide,  do  you  not  knowe  yat  the  Pope  is  the 
very  Antichrist,  whiche  the  scripture  speaketh  of, 
but  beware  what  ye  saye,  for  if  you  shal  be  per- 
'ceiued  to  be  of  that  opinion,  it  will  cost  you  your 
lyfe,  and  sayde,  I  haue  bene  an  officer  of  his,  but 
I  haue  geuen  it  vp  and  deiie  him  and  all  his 
workes. 

And  sone  after  Maister  Tyndall  happened  to  be 
in  the  companie  of  a  learned  man,  and  in  commun- 
ing and  disputing  with  him,  droue  him  to  that  issue 
that  the  learned  manne  sayde,  we  were  better  be 
without  Gods  lawe  then  the  Popes  :  Maister  Tyn- 
dall hearing  that,  answered  hym,  I  defie  the  Pope 
and  all  his  lawes,  and  sayde,  if  God  spare  my  lyfe 
ere  many  yeares,  I  wyl  cause  a  boye  that  dryueth 
ye  plough,  shall  knowe  more  of  the  scripture  then 
thou  doest. 


[  The  fini  accowtt  is  evidently  letter  here,  as 
it  tells  us  the  occasion  of  this  Reply :  see  aiove.] 


Shortly  after  that  he  required  his  maister  Welche 
of  his  good  wyll  to  depart  from  hym,  saying  to 
hym,  syr  :  I  perceiue  that  I  shal  not  be  suffered  to 
tary  long  here  in  this  countrey,  nor  you  shalbe 
able  to  kepe  me  out  of  their  handes,  and  what  dis- 
pleasure you  might  haue  therby  is  harde  to  knowe, 
for  the  whiche  I  should  be  ryght  sory.  So  with 
the  good  wyl  of  his  Maister  he  departed  from  hym 
to  London,  and  there  taried  a  whyle  and  preached. 
But  it  was  not  longe  after  but  he  departed  out  of 
the  Realme  into  Germanic,  and  there  put  forthe 
certaine  bookes  of  the  olde  Testament  and  the  hole 
newe  Testament,  into  the  Englyshe  tongtie,  with 
other  diueise  bookes  of  his  owne  compiling,  the 
whiche  he  sent  from  thence  into  Englandc,  whcrby 


Fox's^  Second  Account,  1570. 

whom  Maister  Tyndall  went  and  opened  hys 
mynde  vppon  diuers  questions  of  the  Scripture :  for 
to  hym  hee  durst  bee  bold  to  disclose  his  hart.  Vnto 
whom  the  Doctour  sayd :  do  you  not  know  that  the 
Pope  is  very  Antichrist,  whom  the  Scripture 
speaketh  of?  But  beware  what  you  say  :  for  if 
you  shalbe  perceiued  to  be  of  that  opinion,  it  will 
cost  you  your  lyfe,  and  sayd  moreouer,  I  haue  bene 
an  officer  of  hys,  but  I  haue  gyuen  it  vp  and  defie 
hym  and  all  hys  workes. 

It  was  not  long  after,  but  M.  Tyndall  happened 
to  be  in  the  companye  of  a  certayne  Diuine  recoun- 
ted for  a  learned  man,  and  in  commoning  and  dis- 
puting with  hym,  hee  droue  hym  to  that  issue,  that 
the  sayd  great  Doctour  burst  out  into  these  blas- 
phemous wordes,  and  sayd :  we  were  better  to  be 
without  Gods  law  then  the  Popes.  M.  Tyndall 
hearj'ng  this,  full  of  godly  zeale  and  not  bearyng 
that  blasphemous  saying,  replj'ed  agayne  and  sayd : 
I  defie  the  Pope  and  all  hys  lawes  :  and  further  ad- 
ded that  if  God  spared  hym  life,  ere  many  yeares 
he  would  cause  a  boy  that  driueth  the  plough  to 
know  more  of  the  Scripture,  then  he  did. 

After  this  the  grudge  of  the  Priestes  increasing 
still  more  and  more  against  Tindall,  they  neuer 
ceased  barkyng  and  ratyng  at  hym,  and  layd  many 
sore  thynges  to  his  charge,  saying  yat  he  was  an 
hereticke  in  Sophistry,  an  hereticke  in  Logicke,  and 
an  hereticke  inDiuinitie  :  and  sayd  moreouer  to  hym 
that  he  bare  hym  selfe  bold  of  the  Gentlemen  ther^ 
in  that  country  :  but  notwithstandyng,  shortly  hee 
should  bee  otherwise  talked  withall.  To  whom  M. 
Tyndall a.uns\veryns  agayne  thus  sayd :  that  he  was 
contented  they  should  bryng  him  into  any  coun- 
trey in  all  England,  giuyng  him  x.  li.  [jCj5o]  a  yere 
to  Ijoie  with,  and  byndymg  hym  to  no  more  but  to 
teach  children  and  to  preache. 

To  bee  short,  M.  Tyndall  beyng  so  molested  and 
vexed  in  the  countrey  by  the  Priestes,  was  con- 
strayned  to  leaue  that  countrey  and  to  seke  an  other 
place  :  and  so  commyng  to  M.  IVelche  he  desired 
hym  of  hys  good  will,  that  hee  might  departe  from 
hym,  saying  on  thiswise  to  hym:  Syr,  I  perceaue 
I  shall  not  bee  suffered  to  tarye  long  here  in  this 
countrey,  neither  shal  you  be  hable  though  you 
would,  to  kepe  me  out  of  the  handes  of  the  spiritu- 
altie,  and  also  what  displeasure  might  grow  thereby 
to  you  by  kepyng  me,  God  knoweth :  for  the  whiche 
I  should  be  right  sory.  So  that  in  fine,  Af.  Tyndall 
with  the  good  will  of  his  master,  departed  and 
eftsoones  came  vp  to  London,  and  there  preached 
a  while,  accordyng  as  hee  had  done  in  the  countrey 

B    2 


12  WILLIAM  TYNDALE'S  ANTECEDENT  CAREER. 

Fox's  First  Account,  1563.  Fox's  Second  Account,  1570. 

sence  thankes  be  geuen  to  God,  the  dore  of  lyght  before,  and  specially  about  the  town  of  Bristowe, 

into  the  scriptures,  hath  and  dailie  is  more  and  more  and  also  in  the  sayd  towne,  in  the  common  place 

opened  vnto  vs,  the  whiche  before  was  many  yeares  called  Saint  Austins  Greene.l 

closed  in  darkenes.   ^p.  513-4.  Ed.  1563.  //.  1224-5.  Ed.  1570. 

.3.  Earlier  than  the  testimony  of  the  Author  of  the  Memorandum, 
preserved  by  Fox,  is  the  evidence  that  comes  out  in  the  '  trouble '  of 
Humphrey  Monmouth.  In  answer  to  twenty-four  articles  of  heresy 
charged  against  him,  in  May,  1528,  Monmouth  wrote  to  Wolsey  and  the 
Council  the  following  petition,  here  reprinted  from  J.  Strype's  Ecclesiastical 
Memorials,  I.,  Part  11.,  pp.  363-7,  Ed.  1822 ;  who  gives  it  verbatim  :  the 
originals  themselves  are  in  Harl.  MS.,  425,  Articles  4  and  5. 

Unto  iJie  most  honorable  Lord  Legate,  and  Chancellor  of  England,  and  to  the  honorable  Councel 
unto  your  Sufferain  Lord,  King  Henry  VIII.  the  xixth  day  of  May,  and  in  the  xxth  yere  of  his 
raigne;  .beseching  your  Grace,  and  al  my  lords  and  masters,  to  have pitie  on  me,  ;^oor  prisoner  in  the 
Towre  of  London,  at  your  plesure . 

THE  xiiiith  day  of  May,  and  in  the  yere  abovesaid,  Sir  Thomas  Moore,  Knight,  and  Sir  William 
Kingeston,  Knight,  and  of  the  Kinges  noble  Counsaill,  sent  for  me  unto  Sir  John  Dauncies,  and  of  the 
same  Counsaill,  and  there  they  examyned  me  what  letters  and  what  books  I  receved  lately  from  beyond 
the  seas,  and  I  said,  None,  nor  never  had  of  trewthe.  And  what  exhibition  I  did  give  to  any  bodie 
beyond  the  sea.  I  said,  None  in  three  yeres  past :  and  examyned  me,  whether  I  was  acquaynted  with 
many  persons  ?  Of  the  which  I  was  acquainted  with  none  of  them  to  my  knowledge  and  remembrance. 
I  told  them  in  iiii  yeres  past  I  did  give  unto  a  Priest  called  Sir^  William  Tyndal,  otherwyse  called  Hotchens. 
And  then  Sir  Thomas  Moore  and  Sir  William  Ken[g]yston  had  me  home  to  my  house,  and  serched  it,  and 
saw  al  the  letters  and  books  in  my  howse  to  my  knowledg,  by  my  faith  ;  and  there  they  found  no  lettres 
that  they  regarded,  nor  Ynglish  books  but  five  or  six  printed,  the  which  they  regarded  not ;  and  they  left 
them  with  me  as  they  found  them.  And  from  thence  I  went  again  to  Sir  John  Dauncys,  my  special  good 
master,  and  he  brought  me  the  same  day  to  the  Towre  of  London,  and  delivered  me  unto  Sir  Edmonde 
Walsyngham,  Kt.,  and  Lyftenant  of  the  Towre. 

Upon  iiii  yeres  and  a  half  past,  and  more,^  I  herde  the  foresaid  Sir  William  preach  ii  or  iii  sermons 
at  St.  Donstones  in  the  west,  in  London ;  and  after  that  I  chaunced  to  meet  with  him,  and  with  com- 
munication I  examyned  what  lyving  he  had.  He  said  he  had  none  at  all,  but  he  trusted  to  be  with  my 
Lord  of  London  in  his  service.  And  therfore  I  had  the  better  fantasy  to  him.  And  afterward  he 
went  to  my  Lord  and  spake  to  him,  as  he  told  me,  and  my  L.  of  London  answered  him,  that  he  had 
Chaplaines  inough,  and  he  said  to  him,  that  he  would  have  no  more  at  that  tyme.     And  so  the  Priest  came 

1  Every  preaching  trip  to  Bristol  involved  a  thirty  '  In  four  yeres  past '  Monmouth  did  give  exhibition 
miles'  walk,  fifteen  each  way.          _  unto  Tyndale  :  '  I  did  paie  it  him,  when  he  made 

2  Priests,  at  this  time  and  previously,  received  his  exchange  to  Hamborow.'  Therefore  Tyndale 
the  title  of  Sir,  as  a  mark  of  respect ;  as  we  now  left  England  about  May  1524.  '  Within  a  year  after 
designate  laymen,  Esquire.  he  sent  for  his  [other]  ten  pounds  to  me  from  Ham- 

3  This  fixes  precisely  the  date  of  Tyndale's  coming  borow,  and  thither  I  sent  it  him ' ;  say  about  March 
to  London.  He  must  have  begun  to  preach  immedi-  1525.  Tyndale  therefore  left  Hamburgh  for  Cologne 
ately  on  arrival.  Monmouth  spoke  with  him  before  he  in  the  summer  of  1525.  He  probably  stayed  not  long 
applied  to  Tonstall.  '  Four  yeres  and  a  halfe  past'  there  ;  but  being  discovered,  he  escaped  with  Roy 
would  be  19th  November,  1523; 'and  more 'would,  at  up  the  Rhine,  and  came  to  Worms  about  September 
the  latest,  place  Tyndale'sjourney  to  town  in  October  1525  ;  and  then  and  there  working  unremittingly — 
of  that  year.  He  stays  with  Monmouth  six  months  the  actual  translation  being  probably  already 
according  to  Monmouth's  account,  who  would  finished — saw  the  two  editions  through  the  press,  by 
naturally  represent  his  stay  as  short  as  possible  ;  the  end  of  that  year. 

'almost  an  yere'  he  says  himself,  see  page  16. 


WILLIAM  TYNDALE'S  ANTECEDENT  CAREER.  13 

to  me  againe,  and  besought  me  to  help  him,  and  so  I  took  him  into  my  house  half  a  yere :  and  there  he 
lived  like  a  good  Priest,  as  methought.  He  studied  most  part  of  the  day  and  of  the  night,  at  his  book  ;* 
and  he  would  eat  but  sodden  meat  by  his  good  wil,  nor  drink  but  small  single  beer.  I  never  saw  him 
weare  linnin  about  him  in  the  space  he  was  with  me.  I*  did  promys  him  xi.  sterling  [;CiSo],  to  praic  for 
my  father  and  mother  there  sowles,  and  al  Christen  sowlcs.  I  did  paie  it  him,  when  he  made  his  exchange 
to  Haniborow.  Afterwards  he  got  of  some  other  men  xA  sterling  [;{^iso]  more,  the  which  he  left  with  me. 
And  within  a  yere  after  he  sent  for  his  ten  pounds  to  me  from  Hamborow  :  and  thither  I  sent  it  him  by 
one  Hans  Collenbeke,  as  I  remember  is  his  name,  a  merchant  of  the  Stilyard.  And  since  I  never  sent 
him  the  value  of  one  peny,  nor  never  wil.  I  haue  given  more  exhibitions  to  skollers  in  my  dayes,  than  to 
that  Priest.  Mr.  Doctor  Royston,  Chaplen  to  my  Lord  of  London,  hath  cost  me  more  than  xl  or  l 
pounds  sterling  t;C6oo  or  £jso\.  And  also  Mr.  Doctor  Wooderal,  Provinciall  of  Friar  Austynes,  hath 
cost  me  as  much,  or  more.  Mr.  Doctor  Watson,  Chaplain  to  the  Kings  good  Grace,  hath  cost  me  some- 
what, and  somewhat  I  have  given  to  skollers  at  his  request,  and  to  divers  priests  and  fryers:  and  yf  any 
of  those  other  should  chaunce  to  turn,  as  that  Priest  hath  done,  as  God  forbid,  were  I  to  bbme  for  giving 
them  exhibition  ? 

The  foresaid  Sir  William  left  me  an  English  book,  called  Enchiridion.'*  The  which  book  the  Abbes  of 
Dennye  desyred  yt  of  me,  and  I  sent  >-t  to  her.  And  that  howse  hath  cost  me  more  than  l  pounds 
sterling  [;^75o].  I  could  reherse  many  more.  I  do  not  say  this  because  I  wold  be  praised,  as  God  knoweth, 
but  bicause  your  Gr.  and  my  Lords  of  the  Counsell  should  know  that  I  have  speilt  more  for  the  love  of 
God,  after  the  counsil  of  good  Doctors,  than  of  that  one  Priest. 

Another  book  I  had.  of  the  same  copie  :*  a  Frier  of  Grenwich  desired  yt  of  me,  and  I  gave  yt  him.  I 
think  my  Lord  of  Rochester  hath  it.  I  had  two  books  in  English  wrytten  ;  the  one  was  called  the  Pater 
Noster,  an  old  book.'  How  yt  came  to  my  howse,  on  my  faith  I  cannot  tel ;  and  the  other  book  is  called 
De  Libertate  Christiana.^  I  receved  him  of  one  Arnold,  a  yong  man  that  is  gone  into  Spain  to  a  gentle- 
m.-in  whose  name  is  Mr.  Woodall,  that  went  with  Sir  John  Wingfeld,  Kt.  Embassador  into  Spaine.  I 
delivered  those  two  books  to  the  Father  Confessor  of  Sion.  And  also  I  delivered  him  a  book  of  the  N. 
Testament,  the  which  book  my  L.  of  London  had.  Also,  I  had  a  litle  treatise,  that  the  Priest  sent  me, 
when  he  sent  for  his  mony.  And  all  those  books,  save  the  books  of  the  N.  Testament,  laye  openly  in  my 
house  for  the  space  of  two  yeres  or  more,  that  every  man  might  rede  on  them  that  would,  at  their  pleasure. 
I  never  harde  priest,  nor  fryer,  nor  lay  man  find  any  great  fault  in  them.  And  so  I  trust  in  our  Lord 
God,  that  your  good  Grace,  nor  none  of  my  lords  and  masters  of  the  Kings  noble  Councel,  wil  find  any 
great  faults  in  any  of  them,  when  it  shal  please  your  Gr.  or  any  of  the  Councel  to  read  them  or  hear  them. 
And  so  I  trust  in  our  Lord  God  I  shal  be  gyltless  for  any  e\il  books,  or  any  other  thing  that  hath  been 
siu-mysed  wrongfully  on  me.  And  yf  mine  accusers  be  wel  examined,  peradventture  they  should  be  fotmd 
more  fawlty  than  I  shal  be,  when  the  trewth  shal  be  known. 

I  have  shewed  the  book  called  The  Enchiridion  to  Mr  Doctor  Watson,  and  to  Mr  Doctor  Stochouse, 
Parson  of  Laname,  [Lavenham,]  in  Suflfolk,  and  to  many  other,  that  never  found  fault  in  him  to  my 

1  i.e.  Studying :  but  undoubtedly  his  chief  book  phrase  of  the  Lord's  Prayer.  Tyndale,  in  his 
was  the  New  Testament.  '  And  even  in  the  bisshope  A  nnvere  to  More  states  that  the  Bishop  of  London 
of  londons  house  I  entended  to  have  done  it,'  see  [Fitz  James]  'wold  haue  made  the  old  deane  Colet 
/.  16.  Once  ensconced  in  Monmouth's  house,  he  \d.  16  Sept.  1519]  of  paules  an  heretykej  for  trans- 
appears  to  have  ceased  to  preach  and  to  have  latynge  the  Pater  noster  in  englyshe/  had  not  the 
devoted  himself  unremittingly  to  the  task  of  trans-  bysshope  of  canterbury  holpe  the  deane.'  Jol.  104.  b. 
lation  ;  and  that  work  he  continued— singlehanded  *  This  is  the  title  of  a  tract  by  Luther,  first 
doing  this  great  task— for  the  next  two  years,  as  he  published  with  his  letter  to  Pope  Leo  X.,  dated  6 
says,  '  even  very  necessitie  and  combraunce  fGod  Sept.  1520,  in  Latin,  at  Wittenberg,  m  1520,  m 
is  recorde)  aboue  strength  .  .  .  caused  that  which  year  two  4to  editions  were  printed  there, 
many  thynges  are  lackynge.'  So  that  there  re-  one  occupying  18,  the  other  21  leaves.  Luther 
mained  but  to  polish  his  version;  and  to  see  it  again  printed  it  there  <n  1521,  in  an  ediUon  of  20 
correctly  printed  :  when  Tyndale  was  able  to  make  leaves. 

arrangements  for  the  secret  impression  at  Cologne,  The  tract  is  written  on  these  two  propositions. 

and  to  obtain  Roy's  assistance  in  collating,  etc.  1.  A   Christian  man  ts  a  most  free  lord  of  all 

•  Evidently  copies  by  Monmouth's  amanuensis,  subject  to  none.    2.  A   Christian  man  is  a  tnost 

'  my  servant '  that '  did  write,'  of  Tyndale's  transla-  dutiful  servant  of  all,  subject  to  all.     Monmouth 

don  of  Erasmus'  book.  appears  to  have  had  a  '  wrytten     English  transUp 

»  Evidently  some  old  English  exposition  or  para-  tion  of  one  of  these  Latin  editions. 


14  WILLIAM  TYNDALE'S  ANTECEDENT  CAREER. 

knowledg ;  and  to  the  Father  Confessor  of  Syon,  and  to  Mr  Martyn,  Priest  and  Parson  of  Totingebeke. 
And  also  the  other  two  books,  called  the  Pater  Noster  and  De  Libertate  Christiana,  I  think  they  looked 
them  most  part  over,  and  they  found  no  fault  at  them.  But  in  one  of  them,  De  Libertate  Christiana, 
they  said,  there  was  in  him  things  somewhat  hard,  except  the  reader  were  wyse.  And  by  my  faith  there 
was  al  the  fault  that  ever  I  herde  of  them.  If  I  had  thought  they  had  not  been  good,  or  put  any  mistrust 
in  any  of  them,  I  would  not  have  shewed  them  openly  to  so  many  men  as  I  did.  But  mine  accusers  unto 
your  noble  Gr.  I  think  did  never  read  them  over ;  and  yf  they  did,  they  were  to  blame,  that  they  had  not 
the  order  of  charity  with  them.  And  yf  they  had  shewed  me,  that  they  had  been  nought  or  evil  books,  yf 
they  had  been  lerned,  I  would  have  given  credence  to  them,  and  done  them  immediately  away.  And.  yf 
.  I  had  then  kept  them,  and  they  had  complayned,  then  I  had  bene  worthy  to  have  bene  punyshed.  I  pray 
God  forgive  them,  as  I  would  be  forgeven  my  self. 

When  I  harde  my  Lord  of  London  ^  preach  at  Pawles  Cross,  that  Sir  William  Tyndal  had  translated 
the  N.  Testament  into  English,  and  was  noughtilie  translated,  that  was  the  first  time  that  ever  I  suspected 
or  knew  any  evil  by  him.  And  shortely  after,  al  the  lettres  and  treatyes  that  he  sent  me,  with  dyvers 
copies  of  books  that  my  servant  did  write,  and  the  sermons  that  the  Priest  did  make  at  St.  Dunstones,  I  did 
bume  them  in  my  howse.  He  that  did  write  them  did  se  it.  I  did  burne  them  for  fear  of  the  translator, 
more  than  for  any  yll  that  I  knew  by  them. 

If  it  like  your  Grace,  for  this  imprisonment  I  have  utterly  lost  my  name,  and  also  my  litle  credence, 
which  I  had,  for  ever.  The  which  is  the  greatest  loss,  and  the  more  sorrow  and  shame,  that  ever  I  had  in 
my  lifFe.  I  occupy  with  divers  clothe-men  in  Sufiblk,  and  in  other  gjaces.  The  which  have  wekely  some 
of  them,  as  they  send  up  their  clothes,  most  have  their  mony.  And  yf  they  fail  of  their  monye,  they  say, 
they  cannot  set  the  poore  folks  aworke.  There  is  divers  clothe-men,  the  which  I  buy  al  their  clothes  that 
they  make.  And  yf  they  should  go  offer  them  to  sel  to  other  men  now  at  this  time,  they  wold  bid  them  go 
and  sel  where  they  were  wont  to  sel,  when  the  sale  was  good  ;  and  so  the  poor  men  should  have  great  loss. 
I  was  wont  to  sel  for  most  part  every  yere  iiii  or  v  hundred  clothes  to  strangers,  which  was  worth. to  the 
Kinges  Gr.  in  his  customes,  more  than  though  I  had  shipped  over  my  self  five  times  so  many.2  I  was  wont 
betwixt  Chrystmas  and  Whytsontide  to  sel  most  part  of  them.  And  of  trewthe  as  yet  since  Chrystmas,  I 
have  sold  but  xxii  clothes,  nor  I  send  over  none,  nor  no  man  axeth  for  none  :  I  praye  God  amend  it,  whan 
yt  shal  please  him.  And  yf  I  leye  here  in  prison  long,  I  cannot  help  my  self  more,  nor  none  other  man 
but  shal  be  utterly  undon  for  ever :  and  if  your  Gr,  be  not  good  and  merciful  unto  me.  God  is  merciful, 
and  wil  forgive  them  that  be  penitent,  and  axeth  forgivenes.  I  trust  in  the  Lord  I  have  not  offended  your 
Gr.  nor  none  of  my  lords  nor  masters  of  the  Kinges  noble  Counsail,  willingly,  nor  to  my  knowledg.  And 
yf  I  have,  I  beseche  your  good  Gr.  and  al  my  lords  and  masters,  to  forgive  me,  as  you  would  that  God 
should  forgive  you. 

Yf  I  had  broken  most  part  of  the  Ten  Commandments  of  God,  being  penitent,  and  confessed,  [I  should 
be  forgiven,]  by  reason  of  certen  pardons  that  I  have,  the  which  my  company  and  I  had  graunted  when 
we  were  at  Rome,  going  to  Jerusalem,  of  the  holly  Father  the  Pope,  a  poena  and  a  culpa,  for  certain 
times  in  the  yere.  And  that  I  trust  in  God  I  receved  at  Easter  last  past ;  furthermore  I  receved,  when 
your  Gr.  was  last  at  Pawles,  I  trust  in  God,  your  pardon  of  a  poena  and  a  culpa  ;  the  which  I  belave 
verily,  yf  I  had  don  never  so  great  offences,  being  penitent  and  confessed,  and  axing  forgiveness,  that  I 
should  have  forgivenes.  Beseching  your  Gr.  and  al  my  lords  and  masters  to  pardon  me  and  to  forgive 
me,  as  I  shal  be  your  poor  headman  during  my  liffe  :  and  that  the  bl.  Trinitie,  and  our  bl.  lady  Saint 
Marie,  and  al  the  holly  company  of  heaven,  may  help  you  al  at  your  most  neede  in  vertue  and  grace, 
Amen.  I  beseche  your  Gr.  and  al  my  lords  and  masters,  to  pardon  me  of  my  rude  wrytinge  and  termes. 
I  am  unlemed  ;  my  witt  is  no  better. 

By  your  poor  bedman  and  prysoner  at  your  Gr's  pleasure, 

Humfrye  Munmouthe,  Draper  of  London. 

In  presentia  reverendi patris  in  Christo  Cuthberti  London  Episcopi,  Hutnfridus  Monmouth  recognovit 
se  scripsisse  istas  cartas.^ 

1  Tonstall  returned  fri^m  Spain  in  the  first  week  of  possible  be  recovered. 

April  1526.      I  am  una.jle  to  fix  the  date  of  this  *  An  appeal  to  the  king's  pocket, 

sermon  ;  to  which  we  shall  find  so  many  references :  ^  Monmouth,  having  many  friends,  was  let  out  of 

it  is  a  central  date  in  this  history,  and  should  if  the  Tower.    He  became  Sheriff  of  London  in  1535. 


IVILUAM  TYND ALE'S  ANTECEDENT  CAREER.  15  VJn         ^/^  " 

AVliether  this  petition  represent  the  religious  opinions  of  Monmouth  at         ^^s^TA     ^ 
its  date  ;  or  whether  it  be  a  most  subtle  representation  of  all  those  of  his  ^*^ 

acts  which  harmonized  most  with  the  shibboleths  of  the  older  *  faith ';  may 
now  perhaps  be  hard  to  determine.  But  it  is  clear  that  henceforth  he 
turned  more  and  more  to  the  Reformation.  In  his  remarkable  will,  dated 
1 6th  November,  1537,  is  the  following  provision  : — 

.^d  I  wyl  that  my  Lord  Byshop  of  Worcester  [i.e.  Hugh  Latimer],  Doctor  Barnes,  Doctor  Crome,  and 
Mayster  Tayllour  [All  four  ultra-Protestants]  shal  preach  in  my  parysh-church  aforesayd  [Alhallowes  in 
Barkynge  of  London],  every  week  two  sermonds,  tyl  they  have  preached  among  them  xxx.  sermonds :  and 
I  wyl  gyve  them  for  every  sermonde  xiiLy.  imd.  [;^io].  And  yf  any  of  these  foresayde  persons  cannot  be 
Aere  to  preach  these  sermonds,  than  I  wyl  that  the  other  supplie  his  place,  that  shal  be  absent :  so  that 
after  they  have  begonne  to  preach,  (which  I  wold  have  them  do  immediatly  after  my  buryal,)  they  shal 
contynue  wekely  every  weke,  tyl  the  said  xxx,  sermonds  be  al  preached,  except  there  be  an  urgent  cause, 
allowed  by  myn  executours  and  supervisour,  to  the  contrary.  And  that  this  thing  may  be  perfourmed  the 
better,  I  bequethe  to  eyther  of  myn  especial  and  singular  good  Lords,  Syr  Thomas  Audeley,  Knyght, 
Lord  Chauncellour,  and  Syr  Thomas  Crumwel,  Knyght,  Lord  Crumwel,  a  standyng  cup  of  sylver  and 
gylte,  of  the  value  of  x.  pounds  [;^»5o],  that  they  may  be  good  Lords  to  these  foresayd  preachers,  to  helpe 
them  and  maynteyne  them,  that  they  be  suffered  to  preach  the  forsayd  sermonds  quietly,  to  the  laud  and 
prayse  of  Almyghty  God,  to  the  settyng  forth  of  my  Prjmces  godly  and  hevenly  purposes,  to  the  utter 
abolyshyng  and  extincting  of  the  usurped  and  false  fayned  power  of  the  Byshop  of  Rome.'— Strypb, 
EccUs,  Mem.  I.  Part  ii.,  p.  369.,  Ed.  1822. 

\.  Yet  still  more  authoritative,  is  the  account  by  Tyndale  of  himself.  In 
what  is  usually  known  as  his  preface  to  the  Pentateuch,  but  which  is  actually 
that  to  The  fyrst  boke  of  Moses  called  Genesis,  the  printing  of  which  book 
at  Marburg  was  finished  on  17th  January,  1531;  Tyndale  cautiously  refers 
to  his  early  life ;  without  naming  those  of  his  friends,  whom  to  name  would 
have  been  to  have  thrown  in  prison.     We  give  the  preface  entire. 

W.      T,  To  the  Reader. 

Hen  I  had  translated  the  newe  testament/ 1  added  a  pistle  vnto  the  latter  ende/  In  which  I  desyred 
them  yat  were  learned  to  amend  if  ought  were  founde  amysse.  But  oure  malicious  and  wylye 
hypocrytes  which  are  so  stubbume  and  hard  herted  in  their  weked  abhominacions  that  it  is  not 
possible  for  them  to  amend  any  thinge  at  all  (as  we  see  by  dayly  experience  when  their  both 
lyvinges  and  doinges  are  rebuked  with  the  trouth)  saye/  some  of  them  that  it  is  impossible  to  translate  the 
scripture  in  to  English/  some  that  it  is  not  lawfuU  for  the  laye  people  to  have  it  in  their  mother  tonge/ 
some  that  it  wora  make  them  all  heretykes/  as  it  wold  no  doute  from  many  thinges  which  they  of  longe 
tyme  have  falsly  taught/  and  that  is  the  whole  cause  wherfore  they  forbyd  it/  though  they  other  clokes  pre- 
tende.  And  some  or  rather  every  one/  saye  that  it  wold  make  them  ryse  ageynst  the  kinge/  whom  they 
them  selves  (vnto  their  damnatyon)  never  yet  obeyed.  And  leste  these  temporal]  rulars  shuld  see  their 
falsehod/  if  the  scripture  cam  to  light/  causeth  them  so  to  lye. 

And  as  for  my  translation  in  which  they  afferme  vnto  the  laye  people  (as  I  haue  hearde  saye)  to  be  I 
wotte  not  how  many  thousande  heresyes/  so  that  it  can  not  be  mended  or  correcte/  they  haue  yet  taken  so 
greate  payne  to  examyne  it/  and  to  compare  it  vnto  that  they  wold  fayne  haue  it  and  to  their  awne  imagi- 
nations and  iuggUnge  termes/  and  to  haue  some  what  to  rayle  at/  and  vnder  that  cloke  to  blaspheme  the 

•    *  Thirty  sermons  remunerated  at  £,i-o  each,  and  large   hearted    and    openhanded   man,  who    thus 

two  silver  gilt  cups  of  ;C» 50  each,  making  together  bequeathed  a  legacy  of  £,ti  to  each  of  his  four 

£,fxio  devoted  to  a  seven  months'  protest  against  favourite  preachers,  upon  the  performance  of,  to 

the    Papacy  :    such   b    the   benefaction    of   this  them,  a  congenial  and  easy  duty. 


i6  WILLIAM  TYNDALE'S  ANTECEDENT  CAREER. 

treuth/  that  they  myght  with  as  litle  laboure  (as  I  suppose)  haue  translated  the  moste  parte  of  the  bible. 
For  they  which  in  tymes  pasA  were  wont  to  loke  on  no  more  scripture  then  they  founde  in  their  duns  or 
soch  like  develysh  doctrynej  haue  yet  now  so  narowlye  loked  on  my  translatyonj  that  there  is  not  so  moch 
as  one  I  therin  if  it  lacke  a  tytle  over  his  hed/  but  they  haue  noted  it/  and  nombre  it  vnto  the  ignorant 
people  for  an  heresy.  Fynallye  in  this  they  be  all  agreed/  to  dryve  you  from  the  knowledge  of  the  scripturef 
and  that  ye  shall  not  haue  the  texte  therof  in  the  mother  tonge/  and  to  kepe  the  world  styll  in  darkenessef 
to  th[e]entent  they  might  sitt  in  the  consciences  of  the  people/  thorow  vayne  superstition  and  false  doctrine/ 
to  satisfye  their  fylthy  lustes/  their  proude  ambition/  and  vnsatiable  covetuousnes/  and  to  exalte  their 
awne  honoure  aboue  kinge  and  emperoure/  yee  and  aboue  god  him  silfe. 

C  A  thousand  bokes  had  they  lever  to  be  put  forth  agenste  their  abhominable  doynges  and  doctrine/  then 
that  the  scripture  shulde  come  to  light.  For  as  longe  as  they  may  kepe  that  doune/  they  will  so  darken  the 
ryght  way  with  the  miste  of  their  sophistrye/  and  so  tangle  them  that  either  rebuke  or  despyse  their 
abhominations  with  argumentes  of  philosophye  and  with  worldly  symylitudes  and  apparent  reasons  qf 
naturall  wisdom.  And  with  wrestinge  the  scripture  vnto  their  awne  purpose  clene  contrarye  vnto  ye  processej 
order  and  meaninge  of  the  texte/  and  so  delude  them  in  descantynge  vppon  it  with  alligoryes/  and  amase 
them  expoundinge  it  in  manye  senses  before  the  vnlerned  laye  people  (when  it  hath  but  one  simple  litterall 
sense  whose  light  the  owles  can  not  abyde)  that  though  thou  feale  in  thyne  harte  and  arte  sure  how  that  all 
is  false  yat  they  saye/  yet  coudeste  thou  not  solve  their  sotle  rydles. 

C  Which  thinge  onlye  moved  me  to  translate  the  new  testament.  Because  I  had  perceaved  by  ex- 
peryence/  how  that  it  was  impossible  to  stablysh  the  laye  people  in  any  truth  except/  ye  scripture  were 
playnly  layde  before  their  eyes  in  their  mother  tonge/  that  they  might  se  the  processe/  ordre  and  meaninge  of 
the  texte  :  for  els  what  so  ever  truth  is  taught  them/  these  ennymyes  of  all  truth  qwench  it  ageyne/  partly  with 
the  smoke  of  their  bottomlesse  pytte  wherof  thou  readest  apocalipsis.  ix.  that  is/  with  apparent  reasons  of 
sophistrye  and  traditions  of  their  awne  makynge/  founded  with  out  grounde  of  scripture/  and  partely  in 
iugglinge  with  the  texte/  expoundinge  it  in  soch  a  sense  as  is  impossible  to  gether  of  the  texte/  if  thou 
see  the  processe  ordre  and  meaninge  therof. 

<[  And  even  in  the  bisshope  of  londons  house  I  entended  to  have  done  it.^  For  when  I  was  so 
turmoyled  in  the  centre  where  I  was  that  I  coude  no  lenger  there  dwell  (the  processe  wherof  were  to  longe 
here  to  reherce)  I  this  wyse  thought  in  my  silfe/  this  I  suffre  because  the  prestes  of  the  contre  be  vnlearned/ 
as  god  it  knoweth  there  are  a  full  ignorant  sorte  which  haue  sene  no  more  latyn  then  that  they  read 
in  their  portesses  and  missales  which  yet  many  of  them  can  scacely  read  (except  it  be  Alberius  de 
secretis  muliermn  in  which  yet/  though  they  be  never  so  soryly  lerned/  they  pore  day  and  night  and 
make  notes  therein  and  all  to  teach  the  mydwyves  as  they  say/  and  linwod^  a  boke  of  constitutions  to 
gether  tithes/  mortuaryes/  offeringes/  customs/  and  other  pillage/  which  they  calle/  not  theirs  but/  godes 
parte  and  the  deuty  of  holye  chirch/  to  discharge  their  consciences  with  all :  for  they  are  bound  that  they 
shall  not  dimynysh,  but  encreace  all  thinge  vnto  the  vttmost  of  their  powers)  and  therfore  (because  they 
are  thus  vnlerned  thought  I)  when  they  come  to  gedder  to  the  alehouse/  which  is  their  preachinge  place/ 
they  afferme  that  my  sainges  are  heresy.  And  besydes  yat  they  adde  to  of  thir  owne  heddes  which  I 
never  spake/  as  the  maner  is  to  prolonge  the  tale  to  shorte[n]  the  tyme  with  all/  and  accuse  me  secretly  to 
the  chauncelare  and  other  the  bishopes  officers/  And  in  deade  when  I  cam  before  the  chauncelare/  he 
thretened  me  grevously/  and  revyled  me  and  rated  me  as  though  I  had  bene  a  dogge/  Und  layd  to  my 
charge  wherof  there  coude  be  none  accuser  brought  forth  (as  their  maner  is  not  to  bringe  forth  the 
accuser)  and  yet  all  the  prestes  of  ye  contre  were  yat  same  daye  there.  As  I  this  thought  the  bishope  of 
london  came  to  my  remembrance  whom  Erasmus  (whose  tonge  maketh  of  litle  gnattes  greate  elephantes 
and  lifteth  vpp  aboue  the  starres  whosoever  geveth  him  a  litle  exhibition)  prayseth  excedingly  amonge 
other  in  his  annotatyons  on  the  new  testament  for  his  great  learninge.  Then  thought  1/  if  I  might  come 
to  this  mannes  service/  I  were  happye.    And  so  I  gate  me  to  london/  and  thorow  the  accoyntaunce  of 

1  How  Tonstall  must  have  gnashed  when  he  wode,  [who  became  Bishop  of  St.  Davids,  14  Aug. 
read  this,  and  recalled  to  mind  the  person  and  1442  ;  was  Lord  Privy  Seal  to  Henry  V.  ;  and  died 
manner  of  Tyndale  at  their  interview  nearly  five  21  Oct.  1446]  about  1433.  It  was  one  of  the  earliest 
years  before  !  printed  books  in  England ;  and  several  editions  were 

2  The  Provincial  Constitutions  of  the  English  printed  at  Paris  before  1520. 
(Church,  in  Latin,  were  compiled  by  William  Lynde- 


IVJLLIAM  TYND ALE'S  ANTECEDENT  CAREER.  17 

n>.y  master  came  to  sir  harry  gilford  the  kinges  graces  countrollerf  and  brought  him  an  oration  of  Isocrates 
which  I  had  translated  out  of  greke  in  to  English/  and  dcsyred  him  to  speake  vnto  my  lorde  of  london  for 
me|  which  he  also  did  as  he  shewed  me/  and  willed  me  to  write  a  pistlc  to  my  lordc/  and  to  goo  to  him  my 
silf  which  I  also  did/ and  delivered  my  pistle  to  a  servant  of  his  awnej  one  wyllyam  hebilthwaytc,  a  man  of 
myne  old  accoyntaunce.  But  god  which  knoweth  what  is  within  hypocrites/  sawe  that  I  was  begylcd/  and 
that  that  counccU  was  not  the  ncxte  way  vnto  my  purpose.  And  therfore  he  gate  me  no  favourc  in  my 
lordes  sight. 

C  VVherevppon  my  lorde  answered  mef  his  house  was  fullf  he  had  mo  then  he  coude  well  Andej  and 
advised  me  to  seke  in  london/  wher  he  sayd  I  coude  not  lacke  a  service/  And  so  in  london  I  abode 
almoste  an  yere/  and  marked  the  course  of  the  worlde/  and  herde  our  pratars/  I  wold  say  oure  preachers 
how  they  hosted  tnem  selves  and  their  hye  authorite/  and  beheld  the  pompe  of  oure  prelates  and  how 
besyed  they  were  as  they  yet  are/  to  set  peace  and  vnite  in  the  worlde  (though  it  be  not  possible  for  them 
that  walke  in  darkenesse  to  continue  longe  in  peace/  for  they  can  not  but  ether  stomble  or  dash  them  selves 
at  one  thinge  or  a  nother  that  shall  clene  vnquyet  all  togedder)  and  sawe  thinges  wherof  I  deferre  to  speake 
at  this  tyme  and  vnderstode  at  the  laste  not  only,  that  there  was  no  rowme  in  my  lorde  of  londons  palace 
to  translate  the  new  testament/  but  also  that  there  was  no  place  to  do  it  in  all  englonde/  as  experience  doth 
now  opienly  declare. 

H  Vnder  what  maner  therfore  shuld  I  now  submitte  this  boke  to  be  corrected  and  amended  of  them| 
which  can  suffer  nothinge  to  be  well  ?  Or  what  protestacyon  shuld  I  make  in  soch  a  matter  vnto  our 
prelates  those  stubburne  Nimrothes  which  so  mightely  fight  agenste  god  and  resiste  his  holy  spiritej 
enforceynge  with  all  crafte  and  sotelte  to  qwench  the  light  of  the  everlastinge  testament/  promyses/  and 
apoyntemente  made  betwene  god  and  vs  :  and  heapinge  tlie  firce  wrath  of  god  vppon  all  princes  and 
Hilars/  mockinge  them  with  false  fayned  names  of  hypocrysye/  and  servinge  their  lustes  at  all  poyntes/  and 
dispensinge  with  them  even  of  the  very  lawes  of  god/  of  which  Christe  him  silf  testifieth  Matthew,  v.  yat 
not  so  moch  as  one  tittle  therof  may  perish  or  be  broken.  And  of  which  the  prophete  sayth  Psalme. 
cxviij .  Thou  haste  commaunded  thy  lawes  to  be  kepte  meod\  yat  is  in  hebrew  excedingly/  with  all  diligence 
might  and  power/  and  haue  made  them  so  mad  with  their  iugglinge  charmes  and  crafty  persuasions  that 
they  thinke  it  full  satisfaction  for  all  their  weked  lyvinge/  to  torment  soch  as  tell  tliem  trouth/  and  to  borne 
the  worde  of  their  souleshelth  and  sle  whosoever  beleve  theron. 

<[  Not  withstondinge  yet  I  submytte  this  .boke  and  all  other  that  I  haue  other  made  or  translated,  or 
shall  in  tyme  to  come  (if  it  be  goddes  will  that  I  shall  further  laboure  in  his  hervest)  vnto  all  them  that 
submytte  them  selves  vnto  the  worde  of  god/  to  be  corrected  of  them/  yee  and  moreover  to  be  disalowed 
and  also  bumte/  if  it  seme  worthy  when  they  have  examyned  it  wy  th  the  hebrue/  so  that  they  first  put  forth 
of  their  awne  translatinge  a  nother  that  is  more  correcte. 

5.  It  will  help  US  to  understand  what  manner  of  man  Tyndale  was,  if 
we  consider  the  account  that  Fox  gives  of  him,  at  a  period  some  eight  or 
ten  years  later  on,  in  his  Life,  prefixed  to  the  edition  of  his  Workes  (London, 
1573,  fol.)  above  referred  to. 

And  here  to  ende  and  conclude  this  history  with  a  fewe  notes  touching  his  priuate  behauiour  in  dyet, 
study,  and  especially  his  charitable  zeale  and  tender  releuing  of  the  poore:  Fyrst  he  was  a  man  very 
frugall,  and  spare  of  body,  [Fox  had  previously  stated  that  Tyndale  was  '  a  man  of  no  great  stature ']  a  great 
student  and  earnest  laborer,  namely  in  the  setting  forth  of  ye  Scriptures  of  God.  He  rcserued  or  halowed 
to  hjrmselfe  ij.  dayes  in  the  weeke,  which  he  named  his  dayes  of  pastime,  and  those  dayes  were  Monday 
the  first  day  in  the  weeke,  and  Satterday  the  last  day  in  the  weeke.  On  the  Monday  he  visited  all  suche 
poore  men  and  women  as  were  fled  out  of  England  by  reason  of  persecution  into  Antwarp,  and  those  well 
vnderstanding  their  good  exercises  and  qualities  he  did  very  liberally  comfort  and  relieue  :  and  in  like 
maner  prouided  for  thesicke  and  deceased  persons.  On  the  Satterday  he  walked  round  about  the  towne 
in  Antwarpe,  seeking  out  euery  Corner,  and  hole  where  he  suspected  any  poore  person  to  dwell,  (as  God 
knoweth  there  are  many)  and  where  he  found  any  to  be  well  occupied,  and  yet  oucrburdened  with 
children,  or  els  were  aged,  or  weake,  those  also  hee  plentefully  releued.  And  thus  he  spent  his  ij.  dayes 
of  pastime  as  he  cauled  them.  And  tnielye  his  Almose  was  very  large  and  great :  and  so  it  might  well  bee : 

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i8  THE  PRINTING  AT  COLOGNE. 

for  his  exhibition  that  he  had  yearley  of  the"  Englishe  merchauntes  was  very  much,  and  that  for  the  most 
part  he  bestowed  vpon  the  poore  as  afore  sayd.  The  rest  of  the  dayes  in  the  weeke  he  gaue  hyra  wholy 
to  his  booke  where  in  most  diligently  he  traueled.  When  the  Sonday  came,  then  went  he  to  some  one 
merchaunts  chamber,  or  other,  whether  came  many  other  merchauntes  :  and  vnto  them  would  he  reade 
some  one  percell  of  Scripture,  eyther  out  of  theolde  testament,  or  out  of  the  new,  the  which  preceded  so 
frutefully,  sweetely  and  gentely  from  him  (much  like  to  the  writing  of  S.  lohn  the  Euangelest)  that  it 
was  a  heauenly  comfort  and  ioy  to  the  audience  to  heare  him  reade  the  scriptures  :  and  in  likewise  after 
dinner,  he  spent  an  houre  in  the  aforesayd  maner.  He  was  a  man  without  any  spot,  or  blemishe  of  rancor, 
or  malice,  full  of  mercy  and  compassion,  so  that  no  man  lining  was  able  to  reprooue  him  of  any  kinde  of 
sinne  or  cryme,  albeit  his  righteousnes  and  iustification  depended  not  there  vpon  before  God,  but  onely 
vpon  the  bloud  of  Christ,  aijd  his  fayth  vpon  the  same  :  in  which  faith  constantly  he  dyed,  as  is  sayd  at 
Filforde  [Vilvorde],  and  now  resteth  with  the  glorious  campany  of  Christes  Martyrs  blessedly  in  the  Lord, 
who  be  blessed  in  all  his  saintes    Amen. 

Thus  much  from  friends :  the  next  testimony  comes  from  a  bitter  enemy. 

II.    The  Printing  at  Cologne, 

Great  allowance  must  be  made  in  considering  this  hostile  testimony,  in 
respect  both  to  the  ignorance  and  the  animus  of  Roman  Catholic  writers,  in 
matters  connected  with  the  vernacular  translation  of  the  New  Testament. 
Guessing  causes  for  that,  the  occasion  of  which  they  were  ignorant  of,  they 
hazarded  all  manner  ot  statements  contrary  to  the  tact :  while  as  to  motives, 
they  could  see,  or  at  the  least  would  acknowledge  little  that  was  upright  and 
noble  in  the  Reformers.  Making,  however,  all  necessary  deductions,  we 
shall  recover  much  valuable  information  through  these  antagonistic 
writers. 

X,  John  Dobneck,  surnamed  Cochl^us,  an  incessant  pamphleteer,  and 
virulent  antagonist  to  Luther,  in  a  controversy  with  Alexander  Ales  of 
Scotland,  as  to  the  free  reading  of  the  Scriptures,  printed  a  letter  to 
James  V.  of  Scotland,  (Colophon  dated  Dresden,  vi.  Idus  Junij  [lo  June] 
1533,)  of  which  the  title  is  A71  expediat  laicis,  legere  Noui  Testameftti  lihros 
lingua  vernacida  ?  *  Whether  it  be  expedient  for  the  laity  to  read  the  books 
of  the  New  Testament  in  the  native  tongue  ? '  In  which  occurs  his  earliest 
printed  reference  to  the  secret  printing  at  Cologne. 

COCHLiEUS'    FIRST   ACCOUNT.  TRANSLATION. 

Etenim  ante  annos  octo,duo  ex  Anglia  Apostatse,  And  indeed  eight  years  ago,  two  apostates  from 

qui  Vuittcnbergse  Teuthonicam  edocti  llnguam,  Lu-  England,  who  having  learnt  the  German  language 

theri  nouum  testamentum  in  linguam  Anglicanam  at  Wittenberg  had  translated  Luther's  New  Testa- 

uerterant,  Coloniam  Agrippinam  uenerunt,  tanquam  ment  into  English,  came  to  Cologne,  being  a  city 

ad    urbem    Angliae  uiciniorem,   mercatuque    cele-  nearer  to  England,  more  frequented  by  commerce, 

briorem,  et  nauigijs  ad   transmittcndum  aptiorem,  and  better  furnished  with  boats  for  conveyance  ; 

ibique  post  rusticorum  tumultum  aliquamdiu '  lati-  and  there,  living  in  concealment  for  some  time^ 

^  'The  revolt  of  the  peasants  began  on  19th  July,        .Suabia  to  the  districts  on  the  Rhine,  and  mto  Fran- 
1524.'    It '  spread  with  inconceivable  rapidity  from        conia,  Thuringia,  and  Saxony.     All  these  countries 


THE  PRINTING  AT  COLOGNE. 


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COCHL«US    FIRST  ACCOUNT. 

tantes,  conduxemnt  sibi  in  occulto  Chalcographos, 
ut  mox  primo  aggressu  tria  milia  excmplarium 
imprimercnt,  Cumque  eo  in  opere  alacriter  ingenti 
spe  proccdcrent,  iactitabant  conscij  Bibliopolae  et 
Chalcographi,  totam  Angliam  breui  fore  Luthe- 
ranam,  uclint  nolint  Rex  et  Cardinalis.  Id  ego 
intelligens,  premonui  quosdam  Anglorum  Regi 
iideles,  qui  et  senatus  authoritate  malignam  illorum 
machinationem  interceperunt,  et  Regem  tanti  peri- 
culi  per  literas  admonucrunt.  Vndc  factum  est,  ut 
ea  iacula,  foeliciter  praeuisa,  non  potuerunt  ferire 
incautos,  de  quibus  tantopere  gloriati  fuerant  Lu- 
therani.    A.  vi. 


TRANSLATION. 

after  the  riots  of  the  peasantry,  they  secretly  hired 
printers  to  print  at  first  3000  copies.  As  ihey  pro- 
ceeded eagerly  and  hopefully  in  the  work,  the 
booksellers  and  printers  who  knew  of  it  boasted 
that  the  whole  of  England  would  shortly  be  Lu- 
theran, whether  the  king- and  cardinal  wished  it  or 
not.  Hearing  of  this,  I  warned  some  faithful 
servants  of  the  king  of  England,  who  by  authority 
of  the  senate  intercepted  the  evil  design  and 
warned  the  king  by  letter  of  the  danger.  Thus  it 
happened,  that  these  weapons,  happily  foreseen, 
could  not  strike  unawares  the  people  of  whom  the 
Lutherans  liad  boasted  so  highly. 


2.  Cochlaeus  wrote  De  matrimonio  serenissimi  Regis  Anglice,  Henrici 
Odavi,  Congratulatio  dlsputatoria  (Colophon  dated  Lipsiae,  Feb.  1535): 
to  which  Sir  Richard  Morison  replied  in  his  Apomaxis  Caliimniarum  J. 
Cochlai  contra  Henry  VIII.  (Colophon  dated  London  1537)  :  to  which 
work  Cochlceus  rejoined  with  Scopa  ....  in  arancas  Richardi 
Morysini  Am^li  (Colophon  dated  Lipsiae,  March  1538).  In  this  last  work, 
Cochlaeus  again  alludes  to  the  printing  at  Cologne. 


COCHLiBUs'   SECOND  ACCOUNT. 

Ego  uero  Morysine  Regem  tuum  non  segniter 
laudaui,  dum  laude  digna  faceret.  Et  possem  pro- 
fect5  multo  iustius  ei  ingratitudinis  dicam  scribere, 
quam  tu  Caesari  nostro  Opt.  ac  sanctiss.  Principi. 
Nam  anno  Domini  M.D.XXV.  cum  essem  pauper 
et  exul  per  seditiosos  plebis  et  rusticorura  tumultus, 
Coloniae  constitutus,  non  solum  indicaui  ei  per 
epistolam  priuatam  occultas  duorum  Anglorum 
contra  regnum  suum  machinationes  improbas, 
quibus  Lutheri  Testamentum  nouum  in  Anglicanam 
linguam  uersum, Colonise  excudebatur,  ut  in  Angliam 
in  mulcis  milibus  occulte  transmitteretur,  Verum 
etiam  et  publice  nuncupaui  ei  subsequente  mox 
altero  anno  XIL  libros  Ruperti  Tuitiensis  in 
Apocalypsim  loannis,  et  librum  plurium  eiusdem 
Ruperti  opusculonim  bene  compactum,  dono  trans- 
misi.  Ipse  uero  ad  haec  omnia  perpetu5  mutus  ad 
me  ac  dissimulator  permansit,  paupertatis  et  exilij 
mei  prorsus  immemor,  licet  eo  tempore  Lutheranae 
sectae  infensissiraus  esset  hostis  et  aduersarius. 
Vt  mihi  tunc  suomet  iudicio  non  minus  pro  illo 
indicio  meo  de  duobus  Anglis,  in  regni  tran- 
quillitatem  male    machinantibus,  debuerit,  quam 


TRANSLATION,    BY  MR.  C.    ANDERSON. 

But,  Morysin,  I  was  not  slow  to  praise  /our  King, 
when  he  did  things  that  were  worthy  of  praise ;  and 
I  could  immediately  write  against  him  a  charge  of 
ingratitude,  much  more  justly  than  you  can  against 
our  excellent  Emperor  and  most  sacred  Prince.  For 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord  MDXXV.  when  I  was 
poor,  and  by  the  seditions  of  the  people  and 
tumult  of  the  rustics  settled  an  exile  of  Cologne, 
not  only  did  I  discover  to  him,  by  a  private  epistle, 
the  secret  wicked  machinations  of  two  Englishmen 
against  his  kingdom,  by  whom  the  New  Testament 
(of  Luther)  translated  into  the  English  language, 
was  printed  at  Cologne,  that  it  might  be  transmitted 
secretly,  in  many  thousands  into  England :  But  I 
also  forthwith,  in  the  next  year,  publicly  dedicated 
to  him  xii.  Books  of  Rupert  of  Deutz,  on  the  Apo- 
calypse of  John,  and  I  sent  him,  as  a  present,  a 
book,  well  bound,  consisting  of  the  greater  part  of 
the  small  works  of  the  said  Rupert.  But,  notwith- 
standing all  these  things,  he  still  remained  silent, 
and  took  no  notice  of  me,  altogether  unmindful  of 
my  jwverty  and  exile,  although  at  that  time  he 
was  a  most  determined  enemy  and  opposer  of  the 


had  revolted  in  January,  1525.'  D'Aubign^,  Hist, 
of  Hu  Reformation,  ii.  343  ;  Ed.  1855.  The  revolt 
was  finally  suppressed  by  the  defeat,  on  15th  May, 


1525.  of  the  peasants,  by  Philip,  the  Landgrave  of 
Hesse.  Cocnlajus  phiccs  Tyndale's  residence  at 
Cologne  some  time  aifter  the  tumults. 

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COCHLiEUS     SECOND  ACCOUNT. 

Mardochseo  debuit  Assuerus  pro  indicfo  quod  Is 
de  duobus  Eunuchis  Regi  periclitaati  per  Hester 
insinuauerat.     B.  ij. 


TRANSLATION,    BY   MR.    C.    ANDERSON. 

Lutheran  sect.  So,  then,  even  in  his  own  estimation, 
he  was  indebted  to  me,  for  that  discovery  of  mine, 
concerning  the  two  Englishmen,  plotting  wickedly 
against  the  peace  of  his  kingdom,  not  less  than 
Ahasuerus  was  indebted  to  Mordecai,  for  the  dis- 
covery, which,  through  Esther,  he  unbosomed  to 
the  King,  when  in  jeopardy  from  his  two  eunuchs. 
Anuals  of  the  Eng,  Bible  :  i.  6i.  Ed.  1845. 


3*  But  the  fullest  account  of  the  secret  impression  given  to  us  by 
Cochlasus  is  in  his  history  De  Actis  et  Scriptis  Martiiii  Liitheri,  printed  at 
St.  Victor's  Mount,  a  monastery  near  Mayence  [Moguntium]  1549,  wherein 
under  the  year  1526^  occurs  the  following  most  important  passage. 


COCHL^US    THIRD   ACCOUNT, 

Verum  Duo  Angli  Apostatse,  qui  aliquandiu 
fuerant  Vuittenbergse,^  non  solum  quaerebant 
subuertere  Mercatos  suos,  qui  eos  occulte  in  exilic 
fouebant  et  alebant :  Verum  etiam  cunctos  Angliae 
populos,  uolente  nolente  Rege,  breui  per  nouum 
Lutheri  Testamentum,^  quod  in  Anglicanam 
traduxerant  linguam,  Lutheranos  fore  sperabant. 
Venerant  iam  Coloniam  Agrippinam,  ut  Testa- 
mentum  sic  traductum,  per  Typographos  in  multa 
Milia  multiplicatum,  occulte  sub  alijs  mercibus 
deueherent  inde  in  Angliam.  Tanta  enim  eis  erat 
rei  bene  gerendse  fiducia,  ut  primo  agressu  peterent 
a  Typographis,  Sex  Milia  sub  praelum  dari.  Illi 
autem  subuerentes,  ne  grauissimo  afficerentur 
damno,  si  quid  aduersi  accideret,  tantum  Tria 
Milia*  sub  praelum  miserunt :  Quae  si  foeliciter 
uenderentur,  facile  possent  imprimi  denuo.  Iam 
literas  ad  Sanctos,  qui  sunt  in  Anglis,  praemiserat 
Pomeranus,*   et  ad  Regem  quoque  scripserat  ipse 


TRANSLATION,    BY    MR.    C.    ANDERSON. 

Two  English  apostates,  who  had  been  sometime 
at  Wittenberg,'*  sought  not  only  to  subvert  their  own 
merchant  (who  secretly  favoured  and  supported 
them  in  their  exile,)  but  even  hoped  that,  whether 
the  king  would  or  not,  all  the  people  of  England 
would  in  a  short  tim?  become  Lutherans,  by  means 
of  the  New  Testament  of  Luther,*  which  they  had 
translated  into  the  English  language.  They  had 
already  come  to  Cologne,  that  thence  they  might 
convey,  secretly,  under  cover  of  other  goods  to 
England,  the  Testament  so  translated,  and  multi- 
plied by  printers  into  many  thousands.  For  they 
had  so  much  confidence  of  managing  the  business 
well,  that,  at  the  first  onset,  they  asked  from  the 
printers  six  thousand  to  be  given  from  the  press. 
But  fearing  lest  they  should  meet  with  a  very  heavy 
loss,  if  anything  happened  unfortunately,  they  only 
put  three  thousand  *  to  the  press ;  which,  if  they 
should  happily  be  sold,  could  with  ease  be  printed 


'  Cochlaeus,  •writing  23  years  after  the  event, 
summarises  events  from  their  perspective  at  that 
distance  of  time.  He  groups  matters  together 
which  occurred  over  a  period  of  several  years,  as  if 
thejiwere  but  the  stages  in  a  vast  preconceived  plot, 
so  subtle  and  far-reaching  as  to  require  even  dia- 
bolic powers  of  invention  and  construction  :  instead 
of,  as  in  truth  and  fact,  the  uncombined  efforts  of 
many  men  who  strove  to  bring  the  system  of  which 
he  was  the  advocate,  down  to  the  dust.  The  date 
1526  is  no  contradiction,  for  his  main  story  is  the 
publication  of  the  works  of  the  Abbbt  Rupcrtus,  the 
publishing  of  which  at  Cologne  began  in  1526  ;  his 
notice  of  the  New  Testament  being  but  episodical. 

*  It  is  to  be  noted  that  Cochlaeus  did  not  know 
even  the  names  of  Tyndale  and  Roy,  much  less 
their  previous  history.  Therefore  he  supposes  that 
these  two  '  apostates '  had  been  first  with  Luther : 
which  is  quite  contrary  to  the  fact.  There  is 
nothing  to  show  that  Tyndale  ever  saw  Luther. 


He  denied  that  he  was  confederate  with  him. 
Both  Reformers  were  apparently  quite  independ- 
ently at  work. 

*  How  could  Cochlaeus  know  this,  when  he  never 
saw  a  sheet  of  the  impression  ?  Luther's  German 
version  first  appeared  in  Sept.  1522. 

■*  This  fixes  the  final  number  of  the  Quarto  im- 
pression :  of  which  the  present  fragment  is  the 
only  known  relic. 

5  The  title  of  this  short  letter  (4  leaves)  is  Epistola 
loaiuiis  Btti^eiihagii  J'ovterani  ad  Ang;los,  Wit- 
temberg.  MDXXV.  The  nd  Sanctos,  S'c,  quoted 
by  Cochlaeus,  is  found  in  the  bending  /oannes  Bvp-en 
hagms  Pomeranus  Pastor  Ecclesia  Witteitiber- 
gensis  Sa7ictis  in  Christo  qui  sunt  in  Anglia. 
The  essence  of  this  letter  is  the  following,  taken 
from  the  first  English  edition  1536.  "  And  because 
thou  shalt  not  excuse  thyself  with  the  diuersyte  ot 
doctrynes,  to  be  shorte,  we  teach  but  one  artikle, 
though  we  preach  much  daylye,  and  wryte  much, 


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COCHL-EUS    THIRD  ACCOUNT. 

I-utherus. '  Cunqiie  nouum  Testamentum  mox 
subsequuturum  crc^derctur,  tanta  ex  ea  spe  Ijctitia 
Lutheranos  inuasit,  ac  uanx  fiducia:  iiento  inflauit, 
ut  gaudio  distenti,  ante  diem  ruperint  secretum 
uanis  iactationibus.  * 


Exulabat  co  tempore  Colonise  loannes  Cochlaeus, 
Decanus  Ecclesiae  B.  Virginis  Francofordensis, 
Qui  per  hospitem  suum,  Georgium  Lauer,  Canon- 
icum  ad  Apostolos,  Abbati  Tuitiensi  redditus  fami- 
liariter  notus,  ubi  audisset  opera  quaedam  Ruperti 
Tuitiensis  quondam  Abbatis,  mittenda  esse  Nurcn- 
ber^m,  ut  a  Lutheranis  aederentur  in  publicum : 
coepit  sammo  studio  earn  rem  et  dbsuadere  et 
impedire.  Nam  Lutherani  in  eum  usque  diem, 
cum  omnes  Bibliothecas  antiquas  diligentissime 
exquisiuissent  ac  discussissent,  nullum  ^prorsus 
autorem  ex  cunctis  tot  saeculorum  Doctoribus 
Ecclesise  inuenire  p>otuerunt,  qui  Lutheri  dogmata 
comprobasset.  Inuentum  tandem  illius  Ruperti, 
qui  ante  400.  annos  uixerat,  opusculum,  cui  titulus 
erat,  De  Victoria  uerbi  Dei,*  mox  Nurenbergse  a 
Lutheranis  euulgatum  est.  Quod  suo  titulo  ita 
mox  placuit  omnibus  Lutheranis,  ut  nihil  uideretur 
eo  autore  desiderabilius.  Interim  ex  Tritemio  in- 
telligebant,  ilium  complura  scripsisse  opuscula,  sed 
duo  tantum  paruula  inuenerant :  Quorum  unum  de 
potentia,  alterum  de  uoluntate  Dei  inscriptum  erat. 
In  eorum  xditione  multa  Lutherice  apposuerat 
Osiander,  uxoratus  presbyter  et  prsedicator,  quibus 
pium  autorem  impiae  sectse  patronum  facere 
tentabat.  Et  iam  dudnm  egcrant  cum  ipso  Abbate 
Tuitiensi :  ut  reliqua  Ruperti  Opera  Nurenbergam 
excudenda,  transmitteret.  Ille  uero,  ut  k 
Cochlaeo  audiuit,  quantum  periculi  foret  ea  in  re,  si 
pium  autorem  traderet  in  manus  impiorum,  qui  eura 
non  solum  impijs  praefationibus,  et  annotationibus 
focde  contaminaturi  essent :  Verum  etiam  integros 
et  sanos  illius  sensus  deprauaturi,  ex  Catholico 
antiquo  facturi  essent  ha:reticum  nouum,  qui 
uideretur  cuncu  Lutheri  dogmata  ante  annos  400. 


TRANSLATION,   BY  MR.  C.   ANDERSON. 

anew.  Already  Pomeranus  had  sent  forward  letters 
to  the  saints  who  are  in  England,*  and  Luther  him- 
self had  also  written  to  the  King.^  And  when  it  was 
believed  that  the  New  Testament  was  about  to  fol- 
low by  and  bye,  so  great  joy  from  that  hope  seized 
the  Lutherans,  and  inflated  them  with  the  wind  of 
vain  confidence,  that,  filled  with  delight,  they,  with 
theirvain  boasting,  broke  the  secret  before  its  time.' 
At  that  time  John  Cochlaeus,  Deacon  of  the 
Church  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  at  Frankfort,  lived  as 
an  exile,  at  Cologne,  who,  by  his  host  George 
Laver,  Canon  to  the  Apostles,  [became]  intimately 
acquainted  with  the  Abbot  of  Deutz,  when  he  heard 
that  certain  works  of  Rupert,  formerly  an  Abbot  of 
that  Abbey,  were  to  be  sent  to  Nuremberg,  that  they 
might  be  published  by  the  Lutherans,  he  began, 
with  the  greatest  eagerness,  both  to  dissuade  from, 
and  to  hinder  that  business.  For  the  Lutherans, 
even  to  that  day,  after  they  had  diligently  searched 
and  turned  over  all  the  ancient  Libraries,  could 
find  no  author  of  all  the  Doctors  of  the  Church  for 
so  many  ages,  who  could  have  approved  of  the 
doctrines  of  Luther.  At  last  a  little  work  of  that 
Rupert,  who  had  lived  400  years  before,  was  found. 
The  title  of  it  was  '  of  the  Victory  of  the  "Word 
of  God.'*  And  it  was  forthwith  published  by  the 
Lutherans ;  because,  by  its  title,  it  so  directly 
pleased  all,  that  nothing  more  desirable  could  be 
seen  than  that  author.  In  the  meantime,  they 
understood  from  Trithemius,  that  he  had  written 
many  little  pieces,  but  they  had  found  only  two ;  of 
which  one  was  inscribed  'of  the  power,'  the  other 
'of  the  providence'  of  God.  In  their  edition, 
Osiander,  a  married  priest  and  preacher,  applied 
many  things  after  the  manner  of  Luther,  by  which 
he  attempted  to  make  the  pious  author  the  patron 
of  that  infamous  sect  ;  and  now  they  were  treating 
with  the  Abbot  of  Deutz  himself,  that  he  might  send 
the  rest  of  the  works  of  Rupert  to  Nuremberg,  to  be 
printed.  He,  however,  as  soon  as  he  heard  from 
Cochlajus  what  great  danger  there  would  be  in  that 
matter,  if  he  delivered  the  pious  author  into  the 
hands  of  the  impious,  who  were  about,  not  only  to 


and  do  many  thynges  for  our  aduersaryes,  that 
they  also  maye  be  saued.  And  this  is  the  artykle, 
namely :  <[  Christ  is  cure  ry^lituysnesse.  Yox  he 
is  become  vnto  vs  of  God  the  father,  wysdome, 
iustice,  satisfaction,  and  redemption." 

J  On  I  September  1525.  Cochlaeus  puts  the 
printing  at  Cologne  after  this  date :  at  all  events  his 
discovery  of  it  was  so.  •  Note  5,  /.  20. 

•  Cochlaeus,  erroneously  attributing  a  concerted 
plan  to  all  the  Protestants,  has  great  glee  over  his 


discovery.  His  representation  here  is  quite  false. 
It  was  a  drunken  printer,  not  the  Lutherans,  that 
betrayed  the  secret. 

*  This  edition  was  printed  by  Frederic  Peypos, 
and  finished  in  March,  1525,  in  8vo:  therefore 
Cochlaeus  first  made  the  acquaintance  of  the  Abbot 
of  Deutz  some  time  after  that  month.  Cochlxus 
edited  another  in  4to  at  Cologne  :  the  date  of  his 
dedication  to  the  Bp.  of  Ely  in  which  is  iv.  Idus 
Apriles  [xo  April]  1529. 


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COCHLvliUS     THIRD    ACCOUNT. 

approbasse.  Abbas  igitur  ille,  vir  bonus,  mutata 
sententia  uolumina  iam  in  grandem  fascem 
compacta,  uelut  Nurenbergam  transmittenda,  apud 
se  retinuit.  In  quo  sane  fasce  erant  xiiii.  libri  in 
Euangelium  loannis,^  xii.  libri  in  Apocalypsim^ 
eiusdem,  et  xii.  libri,  de  Diuinis  Officijs.^ 


Cum  autem  Monachi  quieturi  non  essent,  nisi 
sederentur  opera  ilia :  Cochlseus  Petro  Quentellio, 
et  Arnoldo  Berckmanno  sedulo  suasit,  ut  communi- 
bus  inter  se  impensis  et  lucris  ea  opera  susciperent 
sedenda.  Persuadere  tamen  non  potuit,  donee 
tandem  omnem  suam  operam  adseditionem  illam^  eis 
pollicitus  esset.  Cunque  seditio  illa^  satis  quasstuosa 
eis  existeret,  non  egebant  amplius  impulsore 
Cochlaeo,  sed  ipsimet  ultro  plura  illius  opuscula 
desiderabant :  rogantes  nunc  Abbatem,  nunc  Coch- 
Iseum,  ut  undecunque  plura  conquirerent.  Abbas 
itaque  ex  uetustis  S.  Benedicti  Monasterijs  per- 
quisiuit  xxxii.  libros  in  xii.  prophetas  minores,'  et 
VII.  libros  in  Canticum  Canticorum.^  Cochlaeus  vero 
inuenit  Colonise  in  Bibliotheca  Maioris  Ecclesise  ix. 
libros,  De  glorificatione  Trinitatis,  et  processione 
Spiritus  sancti.^  Et  in  scholis  Artiuin  grande  uolu- 
men,  quod  de  operibus  Trinitatis  ^  inscriptum,  xlii. 
complectebatur  libros.  E  quibus  in  Genesim  erant 
IX.  In  Exodum  iiii.  &c.i    Cunque  sciret  Rupertum 


TRANSLATION,    BY   MR.    C.    ANDERSON. 

basely  contaminate  him  by  impious  prefaces  and  an- 
notations, but  even  to  pervert  his  upright  and  sound 
opinions,  and  of  an  ancient  catholic  were  about  to 
make  a  new  heretic,  who,  four  hundred  years  before, 
should  seem  to  have  approved  of  all  the  dogmas  of 
Luther.  The  Abbot,  therefore,  good  man,  having 
changed  his  opinion,  kept  by  himself  volumes,  al- 
ready packed  up  into  a  large  bundle,  ready  to  be  con- 
veyed to  Nuremberg.  In  this  bundle  there  were  four- 
teen books  on  the  Gospel  of  John,i  twelve  on  the 
Revelations,iand  twelve  books  'DeDivinis  Officiis.'^ 
When,  however,  the  monks  were  not  to  be  at 
rest,  unless  they  published  these  works,  Cochlaeus 
earnestly  entreated  Peter  Quentel  and  Arnold 
Byrckman  that  they  should,  on  their  joint  expense 
and  profit,  undertake  their  publication  ;  notwith- 
standing, he  could  not  persuade  them,  till  at  length 
he  had  promised  them,  to  that^  edition,  all  his  own 
labour.  .When  that  became  sufficiently  profitable  to 
them,2they  no  more  required  Cochlseus  to  urge  them, 
but  themselves,  of  their  own  accord,  sought  out  more 
of  his  small  works,  requesting  now  the  Abbot,  and 
then  Cochlseus,  that  they  might  search  for  more  of 
them  in  any  quarter.  The  Abbot,  therefore,  thus 
excited,  diligently  searched  out  of  the  old  monas- 
teries of  St  Benedict, thirty-two  books  on  the  twelve 
minor  Prophets, 1  and  seven  on  the  Songof  Solomon.^ 
Cochlseus  found  at  Cologne,  in  the  library  of  the 
Greater  Church,  nine  books  concerning  the  Glorifi- 
cation of  the  Trinity ,1  and  the  procession  of  the 
Holy  Spirit ;  ^  and  in  the  School  of  Arts  a  large 


1  The  Commentaries  of  Rupertus  were  first  printed 
in  this  order. 

(i)  Cologne.  13  Books  on  Matthew,  with  9 
Books  on  the  Trinity,  etc.  Cochlseus'  dedications 
are  dated  20  April  and  3  July  1526.  Col.  dated 
Pridie  Idus  Junias  [12  June]  1526. 

(2)  Nuremberg.  14  Books  on  John  (Froies^ani 
edition).  Col.  dated  July  1526. 

(3)  Cologne,  The  same  {Catholic  edition).  Col. 
dated  simply  1526. 

(4)  Cologne.  12  Books  on  the  Apocalypse.  Col. 
dated  1526.  There  is  no  printed  dedication  to 
Henry  VIII.  as  stated  by  Cochlseus  :  see/.  19. 

(5)  Cologne.  7  Books  on  the  Song  of  Solomon. 
Dedicated  by  Henry,  Abbot  of  Deutz,  to  Tonstall, 
Bishop  of  London,  pridie  Octobres  [30  Septeni.] 
1526.     Col.  dated  1527. 

(6)  Cologne.  32  Books  on  the  Minor  Prophets. 
Pio  Lectori  dated  3  Sept.  1527.     Col.  Sept.  1527. 

(7)  Cologne.  42  Books  on  the  works  of  the 
Holy  Trinity.  Ded.  to  Wolscy,  dated  3  Sept. 
1528.     Col.  dated  Sept.  1528. 

From  this  it  is  clear  that  Cochlaeus  is  summar- 
izing, in  the  text,  the  whole  of  these  transactions 
rather  than  narrating,  in  consecutive  order,  the 
occurrences  of  the  one  year  1526. 


^  Special  attention  should  be  paid  to  the  first 
edition  of  this  work  :  Cologne,  1526.  It  is  printed 
in  the  same  style  as  the  present  Fragment,  with 
large  black  type  for  the  headings  and  first  lines  of 
each  book,  as  is  here  done  to  each  chapter ;  but  the 
small  type  is  not  the  same.  It  is,  however,  very 
valuable  as  containing  Cochlseus's  dated  dedication 
to  Herman,  Archbishop  of  Cologne :  '  Ex  Colonia, 
iij.  Idus  Marcias  [13  March  ]m.d.xxvi.'  Up  to  that 
date  at  least  Cochlseus  had  not  left  that  city.  It  was 
also  the  success  of  this  book  that  stirred  Quentel 
and  Byrckman  to  seek  out  the  other  works  of  Ru- 
pert of  Deutz.  The  search  detailed  in  the  text  must 
therefore  have  occurred  between  13  March  and  20 
April  1526,  when  Cochlseus  wrote  his  dedication 
dated  Ex  Moguntia,  12  Calendas  Maias  1526,  of 
the  9  books  'on  the  Trinity'  to  Bp.  Fisher:  see 
fol.  200.  Cochlaeus  was  also  at  Mayence  on  3  July 
following,  when  he  dedicated  the  13  Books  In 
Mattkcennt,  to  the  Archbp,  of  Capua  :  see  /ol. 
200  of  the  same  book.  It  would  therefore  appear 
that  it  was  while  assisting  in  the  publication  oi  De 
DivifiisOJjficiis—ihc  earliest  book  of  Rupert,  printed 
at  Cologne — that  Cochlseus  obstructed  the  secret 
printing  of  the  English  Testaments.  Tyndale  there- 
fore certainly  left  Cologne  before  April  1526. 


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COCHL^US'  THIRD   ACCOUNT. 

olim  Leodij  ad  S.  Laurentium  fuisse  Monachum, 
scripstt  Thcoderico  Hezio,  Canonico  Leodiensi, 
quem  Roma:  post  obitum  Adriani  vi.  (cuius  ille  k 
Sccretis  intimus  extiterat)  familiarius  cognouerat, 
obsecrans,  iit  is  in  eo  Monasterio  perquireret, 
quidnam  ex  Ruperti  libris  extaret.  Ille  ergo  rep- 
pcrit  maxime  desideratum  opus,  xiii.  libros  in  Mat- 
thscum,  de  Gloria  et  honore  filij  hominis.  Verum 
transmittere  Coloniam  non  potuit  Archetypum,  nisi 
ipse  cum  duobus  alljs  Canonicis,  pro  restituendo 
exemplari,  cuncta  bona  sua  in  hypothecam  Mona- 
chis  obligarent. 


Ea  igitur  uolumina  uniuersa  Cochlaeus,  Mogun- 
tiam  euocatus,  secum  detulit,  atque  ibi  residens,  ad 
aeditionemprxparauit,Coloniamquesedendaremisit.^ 

Hinc  Typographis  Coloniensibus  notior  ac  fa- 
miliarior  factus,  audiuit  eos  ali^uando  inter  pocula 
fiducialiter  iactitare,  Velint  Nolint  Rex  et  Cardi- 
nalis  Angliae,  totam  Angliam  breui  fore  Luther- 
anam.  Audiuit  item,  duos  ibi  latitare  Anglos, 
eruditos  linguarumque  peritos  et  disertos,  quos 
tamen  uidere  aut  alloqui  nunquam  potuit.  Vocatis 
itaque  in  hospitium  suum  quibusdam  Typographis, 
postea  quam  mero  incaluissent,  unus  eorum  in 
secretion  coUoquio  reuelauit  illi  arcanum,  quo  ad 
Lutheri  partes  trahenda  esset  Anglia.  Nempe 
uersari  sub  praelo  Tria  Milia  Exemplarium  Noui 
Testamenti  Lutherani,  in  Anglicanamlinguam  trans- 
lati,  ac  processum  esse  iam  usque  ad  literam  Alpha- 
beti  K,  in  ordine  Quatemionum.  Impensas  abunde 
supp«'ti  k  Mercatoribus  Anglicis,  qui  opus  excusum 
clam  inuecturi  per  totam  Angliam  latenter  dis- 
pergere  uellent,  antequam  Rex  aut  Cardinalis 
rescire  aut  prohibere  possit. 


CochUeus  intra  se  metu  et  admiratione  uarie 
afiectus,  foris  mirabundus  moerorum  dissimulabat. 
Altero  autem  die,  periculi  magnitudinem  tristis  secum 
expendens,  cogitabat,  quo  nam  pacto  possit  com- 
mode pessimis  illis  conatibus  obsistere.  Abijt  igitur 
clam  ad  Hcrmannum  Rinck,  Patricium  Colonien* 
sem,  ac  Militem  Auratum,  qui  et  Cassari  et  Regi 
Angliae  familiaris  erat  et  Consiliarius,  eique  rem 
omnem,  ut  acceperat  uini  beneficio,  indicauit. 
Ille,  ut  certius  omnia  constarent,  alium  misit 
exploratum  in  earn  domum,  ubi  opus  excudebatur 


TRANSLATION,    BY  MR.    C.  ANDERSON. 

volume  [which  was  inscribed  'of  the  works  of  the 
Trinity '  and  comprised  forty-two  books,  of  which 
nine  were  on  Genesis,  four  on  Exodus,  &c.]  When, 
however,  he  learnt  that  Rupert  was  formerly  a  Monk 
of  St  Laurence  at  Liege,  he  wrote  to  Theodoric 
Hezius,  a  Canon  of  Liege,  whom  he  had  known 
intimately  at  Rome,  after  the  death  of  Adrian  VI. 
[Sep.  1523],  whose  private  secretary  he  had  been, 
entreating  that  he  would  search  out  in  that  monas- 
tery whatever  remained  of  the  books  of  Rupert. 
He  found,  therefore,  a  work  greatly  esteemed — 
thirteen  books  on  Matthew  '  of  the  glory  and 
honour  of  the  Son  of  Man.'^  He  could  not, however, 
send  the  original  to  Cologne,  except  he,  with  two 
other  Canons,  would  pledge  in  security  to  the  monks 
all  their  goods,  for  the  restoration  of  the  copy  ! 

All  these  volumes,  therefore,  Cochlaeus,  being 
called  away  to  Mentz,  carried  with  him,  and  while 
residing  there  prepared  them  for  publication,  and 
sent  them  back,  to  be  published  at  Cologne.^ 

Having  thus  become  more  intimate  and  familiar 
with  the  Cologne  printers,  he  sometimes  heard  them 
confidently  boast,  when  in  their  cups,  that  whether 
the  King  and  Cardinal  of  England  would  or  not, 
all  England  would  in  short  time  be  Lutheran.  He 
heard  also  that  there  were  two  Englishmen  lurking 
there,  learned,  skilful  in  languages,  and  fluent, 
whom,  however,  he  never  could  see  or  converse 
with.  Calling,  therefore,  certain  printers  into  his 
lodging,  after  they  were  heated  with  wine,  one  of 
them,  in  more  private  discourse,  discovered  to  him 
the  secret  by  which  England  was  to  be  drawn  over 
to  the  side  of  Luther — namely,  That  three  thousand 
copies  of  the  Lutheran  New  Testament,  translated 
into  the  English  language,  were  in  the  press,  and 
already  were  advanced  as  far  as  the  letter  K,  in  ordine 
quatemionum  {i.e.  in  quarto].  That  the  expenses 
were  fully  supplied  by  English  merchants  ;  who  were 
secretly  to  convey  the  work  when  printed,  and  to 
disperse  it  widely  through  all  England,  before  the 
King  or  Cardinal  could  discover  or  prohibit  it. 

Cochlaeus  being  inwardly  affected  by  fear  and 
wonder,  disguised  hii  grief,  under  the  appearance 
of  admiration.  But  another  day,  considering  with 
himself  the  magnitude  of  the  grievous  danger,  he 
cast  in  mind  by  what  method  he  might  expeditiously 
obstruct  these  very  wicked  attempts.  He  went, 
therefore,  secretly,  to  Herman  Rinck,  a  patrician  of 
Cologne  and  Military  Knight,  familiar  both  with 
the  Emperor  and  the  King  of  England,  and  a 
Counsellor,  and  disclosed  to  him  the  whole  affair, 
as,  by  means  of  the  wine,  he  had  received  it     He, 


'  t^Ote  I,  /.  23 


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THE  PRINTING  AT  WORMS. 


COCHLiEUS*  THIRD  ACCOUNT. 

iuxta  indicium  Cochlsei.  Cumque  ab  illo  accepisset 
rem  ita  habere,  et  ingentem  Papyri  copiam  ibi 
existere  :  adijt  Senatum,  atque  effecit,  ut  Typo- 
graphis  interdiceretur,  ne  ultra  progrederentur  in 
eo  opera.  Duo  Apostatse  Angli,  arreptis  secum 
Quaternionibus  impressis,  aufugerunt,  nauigio  per 
Rhenum  ascendentes  Vuormacium,  ubi  plebs  plane 
furore  Lutharizabat,  ut  ibi  per  alium  Typographum 
coeptum  perficerant  opus.  Rincus  uero  et  Cochlaeus 
de  his  mox  admonuarunt  htaris  suis  Regam,  Car- 
dinalamque  et  Episcopum  Roffensem,i  ut  quam 
diligentissima  praecauarent  in  omnibus  AngHse 
portubus,  ne  merx  iila  perniciosissima  inueherentur. 
(//.  132-134) 


TRANSLATION,    BY   MR.    C.    ANDERSON. 

that  he  might  ascertain  all  things  mora  certainly, 
sent  another  parson  into  the  house  where  the 
work  was  printing,  according  to  the  discovery  of 
Cochlseus  ;  and  when  he  had  understood  from  him 
that  the  matter  was  even  so,  and  that  there  was 
great  abundance  of  paper  there,  he  went  to  the 
Senate,  and  so  brought  it  about  that  the  printer 
was  interdicted  from  proceeding  farther, in  that 
work.  The  two  English  apostates,  snatching  away 
with  them  the  quarto  sheets  printed,  fled  by  ship, 
going  up  the  Rhine  to  Worms,  where  the  people 
were  under  the  full  rage  of  Lutheranism,  that 
there,  by  another  printer,  they  might  complete  the 
work  begun.  Rinck  and  Cochlseus,  however,  im- 
mediately advised  by  their  letters  ^  the  King,  the 
Cardinal,  and  the  Bishop  of  Rochester  [Fisher],  that 
they  might,  with  the  greatest  diligence,  take  care 
lest  that  most  pernicious  article  of  merchandise 
should  be  conveyed  into  all  the  ports  of  England. 
Annals  of  the  Eng.  Bible:  i.  56-59.    Ed.  1845. 

We  are  much  indebted,  in  a  way  he  did  not  anticipate,  to  the  rabid  zeal 
of  Dobneck,  for  these  circumstantial  details  of  the  secret  printing  of  our  first 
New  Testament,  which  otherwise  we  should  not  have  known. 


III.   The  Print mg  at  Worms. 

\,  Tyndale  produced  at  Worms  the  Second  edition  in  Octavo  :  to  which 
he  added  the  following  his  secqnd  Address. 

To  the  Reder. 
Eve  diligence  Reder  (1  exhortethe)  that  thou  come  with  a  pure  mynde/  and  as  the  scripture  sayth 
with  a  syngle  eyej  vnto  the  wordes  of  health/  and  of  eternall  lyfe  :  by  the  which  (if  we  repent  and 
beleve  them)  we  are  borne  a  newe/  created  a  fressha/  and  enioye  the  frutes  off  the  bloud  of  Christ. 
Whiche  bloud  cryeth  not  for  vengeauncef  as  the  bloud  of  Abel :  but  hath  purchased  lyfa/  love/ 
faveour/  grace/'  blessyngef  and  whatsoever  is  promysed  in  the  scriptures/  to  them  that  beleve  and  obeye  God : 
and  stondeth  bitwene  vs  and  wrathe/  vengeaunce/  cursse/  and  whatsoever  the  scripture  thraateneth  agaynst 
the  vnbelevers  and  disobedient/  which  resist/  and  consent  not  in  their  hartes  to  the  lawe  of  god/  that  it  is 
rightf  wholy/  iuste/  and  ought  soo  to  be. 

Marke  the  playne  and  manyfest  places  of  the  scriptures/ and  in  doutfull  places/  se  thou  adde  no  interpret- 
acion  contrary  to  them  :  but  (as  Paul  sayth)  let  all  be  conformable  and  agreynge  to  the  fayth. 

Note  the  difference  of  the  few/  and  of  the  gospell.  The  one  axeth  and  requyreth/  the  wother  perdoneth 
and  forgevelh.  "i'he  one  threateneth/  the  wother  promyseth  all  good  thynges  to  them  that  sett  their  trust  in 
Christ  only.  The  gospell  signifieth  gladde  tydynges/  and  is  nothynge  butt  the  promyses  off  good  thynges. 
All  is  not  gospell  that  is  written  in  the  gospell  boke  :  For  if  the  lawe  were  a  waye/  thou  couldest  not  know 
Mjhat  the  gospell  meante.  Even  as  thou  couldest  not  se  perdon/  favour/  and  grace/  excepte  the  lawe  rebuked 
the/  and  declared  vnto  the  thy  sinne/  mysdede/  and  treaspase. 
Repent  and  beleve  the  gospell  as  .sayth  Christ  in  the  fyrst  of  Marke.    Applye  all  waye  the  lawe  to  thy 


1  These  letters  by  Rinck  and  Cochla:us  have  not 
yet  been  recovered.  Their  being  private  or  secret 
communications  may  partly  account  for  this.    Their 


loss  simply,  does  not  invalidate  Cochlajus'  state- 
ments as  regards  facts  that  came  within  his  own 
personal  knowledge. 


V 


ry/^'  PRINTING  AT  WORMS.  2*^-^  "^^i? 

dcdes/  whether  thou  finde  histc  in  the  bottom  of  thyne  herte  to  the  lawe  warde  ;  and  soo  shall  thou  no 
dout  rcpentf  and  fcale  in  the  silfe  a  certayne  sorowe/  payne/  and  grefe  to  thyne  hcrtc  ;  because  thou  canst 
nott  withfuU  Uiste  do  the  dedes  off  the  lawe.  Applye  the  gospell/  that  is  to  saye  the  promyses/  vnto  the 
deservynge  off  Christ/  and  to  the  mercye  of  god  and  his  trouthj  and  soo  shall  thou  nott  dcspcare  ;  butt 
shall  feale  god  as  a  kynde  and  a  mercifull  father.  And  his  spretc  shall  dwell  in  the/  and  shall  be  stronge 
in  thee  :  and  the  promises  shalbe  geven  the  at«he  last  (though  not  by  and  by|  lest  thou  shuldest  forgctt 
thy  sylfe  and  be  negligent)  and  all  threatenyngcs  shalbe  forgeven  the  for  Christis  blouddis  sake/  to  whom 
commit  thy  silfe  all  togedderj  with  out  respect/  other  of  thy  good  dedes  or  of  thy  badde. 

Them  that  are  learned  Christenlyf  I  bcseche  :  for  as  moche  as  I  am  sure/  and  my  conscience  bcareth  me 
recorde/  that  of  a  pure  entent/  singilly  and  faylhfully  I  have  interpreted  itt/  as  farre  forth  as  god  gave  me 
the  gyfte  of  knowledge/  and  vnderstondynge  :  that  the  rudnes  off  the  worke  nowe  at  the  fyrst  tyme/  offcnde 
them  not :  but  that  they  consyder  howe  that  I  had  no  man  to  counterfet/  neither  was  holpe  with  englysshe 
of  eny  that  had  interpreted  the  same/  or  soche  lyke  thinge  in  the  scripture  beforetyme.  Moreover/  even 
very  necessitie  and  combraunce  (God  is  recorde)  above  strengthe/  which  I  will  not  rehearce/  lest  we  shuldc 
seme  to  host  oureselves/  caused  that  many  thynges  are  lackynge/  whiche  necessaryly  are  requyred.  Count 
it  as  a  th\'nge  not  havynge  his  full  shape/  but  as  it  were  borne  afore  hys  tyme/  even  as  a  thing  begunne 
rather  then  fynnesshed.  In  tyme  to  come  (yf  god  have  <ipoynted  vs  there  vnto)  we  will  give  it  his  full 
shape :  and  putt  out  yf  ought  be  added  superfluusly  :  and  adde  to  yff  ought  be  oversene  thorowe  negligence : 
and  will  enfoarce  to  brynge  to  compendeousnes/  that  which  is  nowe  translated  at  the  lengthe/  and  to  geve 
lyght  where  it  is  requyred/  and  to  seke  in  certayne  places  more  proper  englysshe/  and  with  a  table  to 
expounde  the  wordes  which  are  nott  commonly  vsed/  and  shewe  howe  the  scripture  vseth  many  wordes/ 
which  are  wother  wyse  vnderstonde  of  the  commen  people  :  and  to  helpe  with  a  declaracion  where  one 
tonge  taketh  nott  another.  And  will  endever  oureselves/  as  it  were  to  sethe  it  better/  and  to  make  it  more 
apte  for  the  weake  stomakes  :  desyrynge  them  that  are  learned/  and  able/  to  remember  their  duetie/  and  to 
helpe  there  vnto  :  and  to  bestowe  vnto  the  edyfyinge  of  Christis  body  (which  is  the  congregacion  of  them 
that  beleve)  those  gyftes  whych  they  have  receaved  of  god  for  the  same  purpose.  The  grace  that  commeth 
of  Christ  be  with  them  that  love  hym.        Praye  for  vs. 

From  Mr.  F.  Fry's  Handtraced-lithographed  edition  {o/^ij-j  copies  only) .    Bristol,  1863. 

2.  Mr.  A.  Bower  in  his  Life  of  Luther^  1813,  under  the  year  1526 
writes,  '  The  Imperial  Diet  assembled  at  Midsummer  at  the  iity  of  Spires, 
and  the  pressure  of  business  was  such  as  to  require  the  attendance  of  the 
elector  John,  during  several  months.'    /.  243. 

Spalatin  was  with  the  Elector  at  Spires.  He  noted  in  his  diary 
*  Saturday  the  morrow  of  St.  Lawrence,'  i.e.  11  August,  1526,1  the  follow- 
ing Table  Talk : 

Sabbato    postridie    Laurentii.i  Princeps    nosier  On  the  Saturday  the  morrow  of  St.  Lawrence,* 

Elector  Saxoniae  (Spirae  in  comitiis  imperialibus)  our  prince  the  Elector  of  Saxo^  (then  at  the  Diet 

audito  in  aedibus   Principis    Hessorum  sermone,  of  Spires)  having  heard  a  sermon  at  the  residence 

domum  rediit.    .     .    .    Buschius  [dixit    nobis  in  of  the  Landgrave  of  Hesse,  returned  to  his  house, 

coena]      .      .      .      Item     Wormatiae'     vi.    mille  .    .    .    Buschius  [told  us  at  supper]   .    .    .   Also  at 

cxemplaria  Novi  Testamenti  Anglice  excusa.     Id  Worms*  6000  copies  of  the  New  Testament  were 

opcris  versum  esse  ab  Anglo,  illic  cum  duobus  aliis  printed  in  English.  This  work  was  translated  by  aii 
Britannis*  divertente,  ita   vii.    linguarum  pcrito,    '    EngUshman,  who  was  staying  there  with  two  of  his 

Hebraicae,  Graecae,  Latinae,    Itaiicae,    Hispanicae,  countrymen,'  and  who  was  so  learned  in  seven  lan- 

Britannicac,  Gallica:,  ul,  quamcunque  loquatur,  in  guages,  Hebrew,  Greek,   Latin,  lulian,  Spanish, 

ea  natum  pules.    Anglos  enim,  quamvis  reluctante  English,  and  French,  that,  whichever   he  spoke, 

el  invito  Rege,  tamen  sic  suspirare  ad  Evangelion,  you  would  think  his  native  tongue.    The  English 

»  St.   Lawrence's  day  is  August   10.    The  day  »  Worms  is  only  some  twenty  miles  from  Sipires. 

following  was  a  Saturday  in  1526 ;  which  proves  the  »  One  of  these  two  assistants  was  Roy  :  who  was 

occurrence  to  be  in  that  year.  the  other  T    Certainly  neither  Fysh  nor  Fnth. 

D 


26  THE  PRINTING  AT  WORMS. 

ut  affirment,  sese  empturos  Novuig  Testamentum,  indeed  have  such  a  desire  for  the  gospel,  although 

etiamsi    centenis    millibus    seris   sit  redimendum.  the  king  opposes  and  dislikes  it,  that  they  say  they 

Adhaec   Wormatiae    etiam    Novum    Testamentum  would  buy  a  New  Testament,  even  if  each  copy 

Gallice   excussum  esse.'— Extracts  from  the  MS.  cost  100,000  of  money.     In  addition  to   this  the 

diary  of  George  Spalatin,  printed  in   Avioenitates  New  Testament  was  printed  in  French  at  Worms.! 
Literarice  hy  Schelhorn  :  [Francofurti  et  Lipsise, 
14  vols.  8vo]  iv.  431-2.    Ed.  1730. 

3.  We  have  now  come  to  the  question;  whether  the  Quarto  was 
finished  at  Worms  or  elsewhere  ?  There  is  no  express  statement  on  the 
subject ;  but  we  possess  circumstantial  evidence  that  renders  it  morally 
certain  that  it  was  completed  in  that  city  or  in  its  neighbourhood. 

Mr.  F.  Fry  in  his  facsimile  edition  (1862)  of  the  Octavo  has  demonstrated  by  similarity  of  type,  water- 
marks, etc.,  beyond  all  reasonable  doubt,  that  it  was  printed  by  Peter  Schoeffer  of  Worms.  It  is  impossible 
to  apply  a  typographical  test  of  like  kind  to  the  present  fragment,  for  we  do  not  possess  in  it  even  all  that 
was  printed  at  Cologne,  by  eight  or  sixteen  pages.  The  evidence  is  therefore  external :  arising  principally 
out  of  four  points. 

TJie  above  testimony  of  Cochlceus. 

o  Cochlaeus  knew  nothing  of  the  Octavo. 

j8  He  indubitably  fixes  the  impression  begun  at  Cologne  to  be  the  Quarto,  in  ordine  Quaternionum  ;  and 
that  it  actually  consisted  of  three  thousand  copies  ;  though  it  was  first  intended  to  print  six  thousand. 

y  He  states — and  it  was  quite  within  his  power  to  ascertain  it — that  the  two  Englishmen  fled,  with  the 
printed  sheets,  to  Worms,  to  complete  the  work  there  by  another  printer. 

*•*  Cochlasus,  at  all  events,  believed  the  Quarto  to  have  been  finished  there. 

Tyndale's  residence  at  Worms :  as  chiefly  fixed  by  the  beginning  of  the  Preface  to  the  Parable  of  the 
Wycked  Mammon,  the  printing  of  which  book  was  finished  8  May,  1528.     See  opposite  page. 

S  Tyndale  says  of  Roy,  '  Neuerthelesse  I  suffered  all  thinges  tyll  yat  was  ended  whych  I  coulde  not 
doo  alone  wythout  one  both  to  wryte  and  to  helpe  me  to  compare  ye  textes  together.  When  that  was 
ended  I  toke  my  leue  and  bode  him  farewel  for  oure  two  lyues  : '  Roy  therefore  left  as  soon  as  the  two 
editions  had  passed  the  press. 

e  Roy  left  Tyndale  in  the  spring  of  1526,  going  to  Strasburg. 

fTyndalq  was  at  Worms  about  August  1526,  by  the  testimony  of  Busche. 

t]  Tyndale  was  at  Worms  in  May  1527  :  and  had  an  interview  with  Jerome  there.  *  A  yere  after  that 
and  now.  xii.  monethes  before  the  pryntinge  of  this  worke/  came  one  lerom  a  brother  of  Grenewich  also/ 
thorow  Wormes  to  Argentine.'    ...     *  Which  lerom  with  all  diligence  I  warned  of  Royes  boldnesse.' 

The  fair  inference  is  therefore  that  Tyndale  did  not  leave  Worms  from  his  arrival  there  with  Roy  in 
October  1525  until  after  May  1527. 

Herman  von  Busche's  Snpper-talk,  on  11  August,  1526. 

Q  Busche's  talk,  combined  with  Cochla;us'  accounts,  fixes  the  impression  of  the  Octavo,  as  well  as  the 
Quarto,  at  three  thousand  copies :  or  Six  thousand  in  all.  For  supposing  signature  {i.e.  sheet)  K  had  not  actu- 
ally been  struck  off  when  the  printing  at  Cologne  was  stopped  there ;  nine  signatures  (A  to  I)  would 
have  been  printed ;  3000  copies  of  which,  or  27,000  sheets  altogether, Tyndale  and  Roy  must  have  taken  with 
them  up  the  Rhine.  If  Busche's  six  thousand  refer  to  the  Quarto  alone,  it  follows  that  Tyndale  duplicated 
at  Worms  what  had  already  been  printed  at  Cologne  :  and  that  having  deliberately  reduced  the  impression 
from  its  first  intended  number  of  six  thousand  to  the  three  thousand  actually  begun  there,  that  he  had 
changed  his  mind  on  arriving  at  Worms,  and  increased  it  again  to  six  thousand :  a  purposeless  waste  of 
power  for  which  he  can  hardly  be  credited.  On  this  assumption  also  the  Octavo,  which  we  know  was 
printed  at  Worms,  has  to  be  accounted  for. 

On  the  other  hand,  it  is  more  reasonable  to  believe  that  Tyndale  did  not  duplicate  the  beginning  of  the 
Quarto,  but  'completed'  it,  and  that  he  printed  a  like  impression  of  the  Octavo.     It  is  not  necessary  to 

!  I  have  not  been  able  to  trace  any  French  New  Testament  printed  at  Worms  In  1525.  One  was  printed 
at  Basle  in  that  year. 


WILLIAM  ROY'S  CONNECTION  WITH  THESE  EDITIONS.  27 

suppose  that  Schocflcr  finished  the  Quarto  :  John  Erfibrdianus,  another  printer  about  that  time  in  Worms, 
may  have  done  it,  or  it  may  have  been  finished  in  some  neighbouring  city.     Indeed  the  short  time  in 
which  the  two  editions  were  produced  favours  the  employment  of  more  than  one^rinter. 
Notices  of  the  Ne^u  Testament  in  England  in  1526. 

t  John  Pykas  of  Colchester  confessed  on  7  March,  1528,  '  that  about  a  two  ycres  last  past,  he  bought 
in  Colchester,  of  a  Lumbard  of  London,  a  New  Testament  in  English,  and  payd  for  it  foure  shillingcs.' 

f  John  Tyball  of  Bumstede  confessed  on  28  April,  1528,  '  abowght  ii  yeres  agon  he  compayned  with 
syr  Richard  Fox  curate  of  Bumstede,  and  shewid  hym  al  his  bookys  that  he  had  :  that  is  to  say,  the  New 
Testamente  in  Englishe,  the  Gospel  of  Matthew  and  Mark  in  Englishe.' 

X  John  Tyball  and  Thomas  Hilles,  between  Whitsontide  and  Michaelmas  1526,  bought  each  a  Testa- 
ment of  Dr.  Robert  Barnes  in  the  Augustine  Friary,   London. 

*,*  All  these  may  have  been  either  Quartos  or  Octavos. 

ft-  Tonstall,  Bishop  of  London,  denounces  both  impressions  on  24  Oct.,  1526. 

"  Archbishop  Warham  does  the  same,  in  almost  identical  terms,  on  3  Nov.,  1526. 

^  Robert  Necton  is  actually  selling  the  Quartos  in  January,  1527. 

0  Henry  VIIL's  preface  to  his  English  translation  of  his  answer  to  Luther,  early  in  1527,  refers  to  both 
editions. 

T  Dr.  Robert  Ridley's  letter  dated  24  Feb.  [1527  in  all  probability]  pointedly  refers  to  the  Quarto. 

*,*  All-  these  occurrences — and  possibly  they  might  be  multiplied — will  be  narrated  further  on.  The 
point  here  to  be  marked  is  their  very  early  date  :  all  before  Jerome  called  on  Tyndale  at  Worms,  in  May 
1527. 

If  then  Tyndale  remained  in  that  city  till  after  May  1527 ;  and  the  Octavo,  as  we  know  it  was,  was 
printed  there ;  and  that  both  editions,  simultaneous^  denounced  on  24  Oct.  1526,  came  into  England  to- 
gether early  in  that  year, — a  supposition  that  Busche's  talk  would  favour, — it  follows  that  Tyndale,  by  some 
printer,  finished  the  Quarto  at  or  near  Worms. 

IV.  William  Roys  connection  with  these  editions, 

\,  In  his  Address  above  referred  to,  prefixed  to  The  Parable  of  the  Wycked 
Mammon,  ^c. ;  the  printing  of  which  work  was  finished  by  Hans  Luft  at 
Marburgh  in  Hesse  on  the  8   May  1528;   Tyndale  thus  informs  us    of 
.  Roy's  share  in  the  production  of  the  first  two  New  Testaments. 

H  William  Tyndale  otherwj'se  called  Hychins  to  the  reader 
Jrace  and  peace  with  all  maner  spirituall  fealinge  and  lyuinge  worthy  of  the  kyndnes  of  Chryst,  be 
with  the  reader  and  with  all  that  thurst  the  vryl  of  God  Amen.  The  cause  why  I  set  my  name 
before  this  lytle  treatyse  and  haue  not  rather  done  it  in  the  newe  testament  is  that  then  I  folowed 
the  counsell  of  Chryst  which  exhorteth  men  Math.  vi.  to  doo  theyr  good  deades  secretly  and  to 
be  content  with  the  conscience  of  weldoynge/  and  that  god  seeth  vs|  and  paciently  to  abyde  the  rewarde  of 
the  last  daye  which  Chrjrst  hath  purchased  for  vs  and  now  wold  fayne  haue  done  lykewysej  but  am  com- 
pelled otherwyse  to  doo.  • 

Whyle  I  abode  a  faythful  companyon  ^  which  now  hath  taken  an  other  vyage  vpon  him/  to  preach 
Christ  where  (I  suppose)  he  was  neuer  yet  preached  (God  which  put  in  his  herte  thyther  to  goo  sende  his 
sprite  with  him|  comforte  him  and  bringe  his  purpose  to  good  effecte)  one  William  Roye  a  man  somewhat 
craftye  when  he  cometh  vnto  new  acquayntaunce  and  before  he  be  thorow  knowen  and  namely  when  all  is 
spent/  came  vnto  me  and  offered  his  helpe.  As  longe  as  he  had  no  money/  somwhat  I  could  ruele  him  : 
but  as  sone  as  he  had  goten  him  money/  he  became  lyke  hym  sclfc  agayne.  Ncuerthelesse  I  suffered  all 
thinges  tj-ll  yat  was  ended  whych  I  coulde  not  doo  alone  wythout  one  both  to  wryte  and  to  helpe  me  to 

»  Can  this  be  Thomas  Hytton,  the  priest,  whose        hjTn  selfe  was  preste,  but  sayed  that  he  had  by  the 
mart^Tdom  on  24  February,  1529,  Tyndale  felt  so        space  of.  ix  yeres  ben  beyonde  the  see,  and  there 
deeply?    More,  in  the  Preface  to  his  Confutacyon,        lyued  by  the  ioyners  craft,'     Bb.  iii. 
states  th'>'   V'vitnii  would  not  be  'a  knowen  that 

D  2 


28    WILLIAM  ROY'S  CONNECTION  WITH  THESE  EDITIONS. 

compare  ye  textes  together.  When  that  was  ended  I  toke  my  leue  and  bode  him  farewel  for  oure  two 
lyues/  and  as  men  saye  a  daye  longer.  After  we  were  departed  he  went/  and  gate  him  new  frendes  which 
thinge  to  doo  he  passeth  a^l  that  euer  I  yet  knewe.  And  there  when  he  had  stored  hym  of  money  he  gote 
him  to  Argentine  where  he  professeth  wonderfull  faculties  and  maketh  host  of  no  small  thinges.  A  yere 
after  that  and  now.  xii.  monethes  before  the  pryntinge  of  this  worke/  came  one  lerom  a  brother  of  Grene- 
wich  also/  thorow  wormes  to  Argentine/  sayenge  that  he  entended  to  be  Christes  disciple  an  other  whyle 
and  to  kepe  (as  nye  as  God  wolde  gyue  him  grace)  the  profession  of  his  baptim/  and  to  gett  his  lyuinge  with 
his  handes/  and  to  lyue  no  lenger  ydely  and  of  the  swete  and  laboure  of  those  captyues  whiche  they  had 
taught/  not  to  byleue  in  Chryst :  but  in  cuttshowes  and  russet  coetes.  Which  lerom  with  all  diligence  I 
warned  of  Royes  boldnesse  and  exhorted  hym  to  bewarre  of  hym  and  to  walke  quyetly  and  with  all 
pacience  and  longe  sofFeringe  acordinge  as  we  haue  Chryste  and  his  apostles  for  an  ensample/  which  thinge 
he  also  promysed  me.  Neuerthelesse  when  he  was  comen  to  Argentine  William  Roye  (whos  tonge  is  able 
not  only  to  make  foles  sterke  madde/  but  also  to  disceyue  the  wisest  that  is  at  the  fyrst  syght  and  ac- 
quayntaunce)  gate  him  to  hym  and  set  him  a  werke  to  make  rymes|  whyle  he  hym  selfe  translated  a 
dialoge  out  of  laten^  in  to  Englysh/  in  whose  prologe  he  promyseth  moare  a  greate  deal  than  I  fere  me  he 
wyll  euer  paye.     .    .     . 

Some  man  wyl  aske  parauenture  why  I  take  ye  laboure  to  make  this  worke,  in  as  moch  as  they  wyll 
brunne  it  seynge  they  brunt  the  Gospel  I  answare,  in  brunninge  the  new  testamente  they  dyd  none 
other  thynge  then  that  I  loked  for/  no  more  shall  they  do  yf  the[y]  brunne  me  also,  yf  it  be  gods  wyll  it 
shall  so  be.  Neuerthelesse  in  translatynge  the  newe  testamente  I  dyd  my  dutye/  and  so  do  I  now/  and 
wjdl  do  as  moch  more  as  god  hath  ordened  me  to  do.  And  as  I  offered  that  to  all  men  to  correcte  it/  who 
soeuer  coulde,  euen  so  doo  I  this.     Who  soeuer  therfore  readeth  this/  compare  it  vnto  the  scrypture. 

2,  Rede  7ne  and  he  nottwrothe  is  a  miscellany  of  invective  verse.  It  was 
first  known  as  The  burying  of  the  mass,  from  The  Lamentacion  at  the 
beginning,  which  has  the  refrain  of 

•  Seynge  that  gone  is  the  masse, 
Nowe  deceased  alas  alas.' 

The  Satire  is  evidently  written  upon  information  such  as  Jerome  had 
brought  from  England;  say  up  to  April  1527.  Roy  had  a  thousand  copies 
printed  of  it ;  and  another  of  his  '  dialoge  out  of  laten,'  but  not  having 
money  to  pay  for  paper  or  printing  to  the  printer,  John  Schoet  of  Strasburg, 
(which  quite  accords  with  Tyndale's  account  of  his  powers  of  gammoning,) 
the  most  part  of  the  two  impressions  were  pawned  to  the  Jews  of  Frank- 
fort.    Some  copies  however  were  sent  into  England ;  and  Wolsey  wrote, 

1  This  translation  is  now  apparently  lost.  The  sayd  the  furst  way  all  redy/ sendyng  forth  Tyndals 
author  of  the  original  Latin  work  (which  I  have  translacyon  of  the  new  testament  in  such  wyse 
also  been  unable  to  see)  is  unknown.  Its  title  is  handled  as  yt  shuld  haue  bene  the  fountayn  and 
given  by  Park  [Harl.  Misc.  ix.  3]  as  Inter  patrem  well  spryng  of  all  theyr  hole  heresies.  For  he  had 
Christianum  et  filiutn  contumacem  dialogunt  corrupted  and  purposely  changed  in  many  placys 
Christianum.  That  this  work  is  also  the  same  as  the  text/  with  such  wordys  as  he  myght  make  yt 
Roy's  book  against  the  seven  sacraments  is  proved  seme  to  the  vnlerned  people/  that  the  scrypture 
by  the  following  passage  in  his  Snpplicacyon  of  affyrmed  theyr  heresyes  it  selfe.  Then  cam  sone 
Sonlys  (in  answer  to  Simon  Fyshe's  Supplication  after  out  in  prynt  the  dyaloge  of  frdte  Roye  and 
/J^r /A^7y^^^rtr.O  published  before  More  had  become  frere  Hyerome/  betwene  ye  father  and  ye  sonne 
Lord  Chancellor  (25  Oct.  1529).  The  reference  is  agaynst  ye  sacrament  of  ye  aulter ;  and  the  bias- 
important  as  fixing  the  order  in  which  the  several  phemouse  boke  entytled  the  beryeng  of  the  masse, 
works  became  known  in  England.  I'he  dates  will  [i.e.  Rede  me,  &c.]  Then  cam  forth  after  Tyndals 
be  seen  to  confirm  Tyndale's  statement ;  that  Roy's  wykkyd  boke  of  Mammona  [dated  8  May  1528] 
two  works  were  printed  at  Strasburg  in  1527.  and  after  that  his  more  wykkyd  boke  of  obydyence' 
'They  parceyuyng  thys/  haue  therfore  furste  as-  [dated  2  October  1528].  foL  xix.  b. 


WILLIAAf  ROY'S  CONNECTION  WITH  THESE  EDITIONS.  29 

on  5  August  1528,  to  Herman  Rinck,  to  arrest  Roy  and  Tyndale  and  to 
buy  up  all  their  works.     Rinck's  reply  will  be  found  at//.  32-36. 

3.  The  Invective  mainly  consists  of  A  brcfe  Dialoge  betwene  two  prestes 
servaunUsl  named  Watkyn  and  Jeff  ray  e  [Jerome  and  Roy]  in  which  ^e  two 
following  passages  refer  to  the  first  reception  by  the  Hierarchy  in  1526,  of 
the  New  Testament  in  England ;  and  in  so  pointed  a  manner  as  to  con- 
stitute very  early  and  important  evidence  on  that  point :  as  we  said,  not 
later  than  April  1527. 

The  first  passage  proves  the  private  *  consistory '  of  the  Bishops  under 
Wolsey,  deliberating  what  was  to  be  done  with  the  Forbidden  Book 


ffi[at.  C  Art  thou  not  a  frayde  to  presume| 
Agaynst  the  Cardinalls  fume/ 

Seynge  they  wilbe  all  on  his  syde? 
Sif.  C  No  I  do  rather  gretly  reioyce/ 
That  of  a  lytell  wormes  voyce/ 

Goddis  iudgement  may  be  veryfyed. 
Agaynst  soche  a  wickeS  brothellj 
Vihich  sasrth/  vnder  his  girthell/ 

He  holdeth  Kynges  and  Princes. 
To  whom  for  a  salutacionf 
I  will  rehearce  a  brefe  oracionf 
dedicate  vnto  his  statlynes. 
KsL  <[  Now  gentell  mate  I  the  praye. 
lUf .   <[  Have  at  it  then  with  out  delaye/ 

Contempnynge  his  maliciousnes. 

O  miserable  monster/  most  malicious/ 

Father  of  perversite/  patrone  of  hell, 

O  terrible  Tyrant/  to  god  and  man  odious, 

Advocate  of  antichrist/  to  Christ  rebell. 

To  the  I  speake/  o  cay  tife  Cardinall  so  cruell. 

Causles  chargynge  by  thy  coursed  commandment 

Td  brenne  goddis  worde  the  wholy  testament. 

Goddis  worde/  grownd  of  all  vertue  and  grace 
The  fructeous  fode/  of  oure  faythfull  trust. 
Thou  hast  condempned  in  most  carfull  cace/ 
Throwe  furious  foly/  falce  and  vniust. 
O  fearce  Pharao/  folower  of  flesshly  lust 
What  moved  thy  mynde  by  malyce  to  consent/ 
To  brenne  goddis  wordef  the  wholy  testament. 

The  tenoure  of  thy  tyranny  passeth  my  brayne 
In  every  point  evidently  to  endyght. 
Nero  nor  herod/  wer  never  so  noyus  certajme 
All  though  of  goddis  lawis  they  had  lytel  lyght 
Shame  it  is  to  speake  howe  agaynst  ryght. 
Thy  hatfull  hert  hath  caused  to  be  brent/ 
Goddis  true  worde/  the  wholy  testament. 

O  perverse 


O  perverse  preste  patriarke  of  pryde/ 
Mortherer  with  out  mercy  most  execrable. 
O  beastly  brothell/  of  baudry  the  bryde/ 
Darlynge  of  the  devill/  gretly  detestable, 
Alas/  what  wretch  wolde  be  so  vengeable  ? 
At  eny  tyme  to  attempte  soche  impediment/ 
To  brenne  goddis  worde  the  wholy  testament. 

God  of  his  goodenes/  grudged  not  to  dyef 

Man  to  delyver  from  deadly  dampnacion. 

Whose  will  is  that  we  shulde  knowe  perfetly 

What  he  here  hath  done  for  oure  saluacion. 

O  cruell  kayface  [Caiaphas]  /  full  of  crafty  conspi- 

racion. 
Howe  durst  thou  geve  then  falce  iudgement 
To  brenne  goddis  worde/  the  wholy  testament 

Thy  leawednes  of  lyvynge  is  loth  to  heare/ 
Christis  gospell  to  come  vnto  clcare  light. 
Howe  be  it  surly  it  is  so  sprcd  farre  and  neare 
That  forto  let  it  thou  haste  lytell  myght. 
God  hath  opened  our  dercke  dimed  syght. 
Truly  to  perceave  thy  tyrannous  intent/ 
To  brenne  goddis  worde  the  wholy  testament. 

Agaynst  thyne  ambicion  all  people  do  crye/ 
Pompously  spendinge  the  sustenaunce  of  the  pore 
Thy  haulte  honoure  hyly  to  magnify/ 
Maketh/  theves/  traytours/  and  many  a  whore 
Wo  worth  the  wretche  of  wickednes  the  dore 
Forger  of  oure  dayly  damage  and  detriment 
To  brenne  goddis  worde  the  wholy  testament 

O  paynted  pastoure/  of  Satan  the  Prophet/ 
Ragynge  courre/  wrapped  in  a  wolues  skynne 
O  butcherly  bisshop/  to  be  a  ruler  vnmete/ 
Maker  of  misery/  occasion  of  synne. 
God  graunt  the  grace  nowe  to  begynne. 
Of  thy  dampnable  dedcs  to  be  penitent/ 
Brennynge  goddis  worde/  the  wholy  testament. 


30   WILLIAM  ROY'S  CONNECTION  WITH  THESE  EDITIONS. 


WxA.  C  No  more  for  onre  lordis  passion/ 
Thou  raylest  nowe  of  a  fassion/ 

With  rebukis  most  despytous/ 
No  man  shall  these  wordes  advert/ 
But  will  iudge  theym  of  an  hert/ 

To  precede/  most  contumelious. 

^ff,    Though  popisshe  curres  here  at  do  barcke/ 

Yet  thou  mayst  therin  well  marcke/ 

The  will  of  god  accomplesshed. 

The  Cardinall  thus  to  rewarde/ 

Which  with  oute  eny  godly  regarde/ 

Desdayneth  the  trothe  to  be  pubblisshed. 
Therfore  as  he  did  the  trueth  condempne/ 
So  god  wil  hym  and  all  his  contempne/ 

With  the  swearde  of  punnysshment. 
Wi.lA,  C[  They  had  fyrst  some  provocacion  ? 
^tl,   <[  None  wother  then  the  translacion/ 

Of  the  englysshe  newe  testament. 
Wherin  the  authors  with  mecknes/ 
Vtterly  avoydynge  conviciousnes/ 

Demeaned  them  so  discretly. 
That  with  all  their  invencion/ 
They  coulde  fynde  no  reprehencion/ 

Resistynge  goddis  worde  wilfully. 
Mat,  C  Howe  had  the  gospell  fyrst  entraunce/ 
Into  Englonde  so  farre  of  distaunce/ 

Where  to  rede  hym/  no  man  maye  ? 
^tl.    <[  Goode  christen  men  with  pure  affecte/ 
Of  god  singulerly  therto  electe/ 

With  cost  did  hym  thether  conveye. 
Which/  even  as  Christ  was  betrayed/ 
So  with  hym  the  clargy  played/ 

Thorowe  trayterous  prodicion. 
8Hat  <[  Who  played  the  parte  of  ludas  ? 
^tf.    <[  The  wholy  bisshop  of  Saynct  Asse/ 

A  poste  of  Satans  iurisdiccion. 
Whom  they  call  Doctour  standisshe/ 
Wone  that  is  nether  fiesshe  nor  fisshe/ 

At  all  tymes  a  commen  Iyer. 
He  is  a  bablynge  Questionist/ 
And  a  mervelous  grett'  sophist/ 

Som  tyme  a  lowsy  graye  fryer. 
Of  stommake  he  is  fearce  and  bolde/ 
In  braulynge  wordes  a  very  scolde/ 

Menglynge  vennem,  with  sugre. 
He  despyseth  the  trueth  of  god/ 
Takynge  parte  rather  with  falcehod/ 

Forto  obtayne  worldly  lucre. 
Tn  carde  playinge  he  is  a  goode  greke/ 
And  can  skyll  of  post  and  glyeke/ 

Also  a  payre  of  dyce  to  troUe. 
For  whordom  and  fornicacionsj 
He  maketh  many  visitacions/ 

His  Dioces  to  pill  and  polle. 

Though  he 


Though  he  be  a  stowte  divyne/ 
Yett  a  prest  to  kepe  a  concubyne/ 

He  there  admitteth  wittyngly. 
So  they  paye  their  yearly  tributis 
Vnto  his  dyvlisshe  substituti^/ 

Official!/  or  commissary. 
To  rehearce  all  his  lyvynge/ 
God  geve  it  yvell  chevynge/ 

Or  els  some  amendment  shortly. 
Wat.  <[  Howe  did  he  the  gospell  betraye  ? 
Ifef.  <[  As  sone  as  ever  he  hearde  saye/ 

That  the  gospell  cam  to  Englonde. 
Immediatly  he  did  hym  trappe/ 
And  to  the  man  in  the  red  cappe/ 

He  brought  hym  with  stronge  hondc. 
Before  whose  prowde  consistory/ 
Bryngynge  in  fake  testimony/ 

The  gospell  he  did  theare  accuse. 
Mat.  C  He  did  mo  persones  represent/ 

Then  ludas  the  traytour  malivolent/ 

Whiche  betrayed  Christ  to  the  lues, 
^ff.  <[  Thou  mayst  se  of  theym  in  one  manne/ 
Herod/  Pilat/  Cayphas/  and  Anne  [Ananias]. 

With  their  propertis  severall. 
And  in  another  manifestly/ 
ludas  full  of  conspiracy/    ■ 

With  the  sectes  pharisaicall. 
They  are  a  grett  deale  more  mutable/ 
Then  Proteus  of  forme  so  variable/ 

Which  coulde  hym  silfe  so  disgyse. 
They  canne  represent  apes/  and  beares/- 
Lyons/  and  asses  with  longe  eares/ 

Even  as  they  list  to  divyse. 
But  nowe  of  standisshe  accusacion/ 
Brefly  to  make  declaracion/ 

Thus  to  the  Cardinall  he  spake. 
Pleaseth  youre  honourable  grace/ 
Here  is  chaunsed  a  pitious  cace/ 

And  to  the  churche  a  grett  lacke. 
The  gospell  in  oure  Englisshe  tongej 
Of  laye  men  to  be  red  and  songe/ 

Is  nowe  bidder  come  to  remayne. 
Which  many  heretykes  shall  make/ 
Except  youre  grace  some  waye  take/ 

By  youre  authorite  hym  to  restrayne. 
For  truly  it  is  no  handlynge/ 
For  laye  peoples  vnderstondynge/ 

With  the  gospell  to  be  busy. 
Which  many  wone  interprisynge/ 
Into  heresy  it  did  bryngc/ 

Disdaynynge  the  churche  vnrcvcrently. 
Mat.  C  Tosshe/  these  saynges  are  sophisticall/ 
I  wolde  heare  the  sence  misticall/ 

Of  these  wordes  right  interpreted. 


WILLIAM  ROY'S  CONNECTION  WITH  THESE  EDITIONS.  3^.^ 


|p{.  a  In  fayth  with  out  simulacion/ 
This  is  the  right  significacion/ 

Of  his  mcanyngc  to  be  expressed. 
O  Cardiiiall  so  glorious/ 
Thou  arte  dpitayne  over  vs/ 

Antichristis  chefe  member. 
Of  all  cure  detestacions/ 
And  sinfuU  prevaricacionsf 

Thou  alone/  arte  the  defender. 
Wherfore  healpe  nowe  or  els  never/ 
For  we  are  vadonc  for  ever/ 

Yf  the  gospell  abroade  be  spred. 
For  then  with  in  a  whyle  after/ 
Every  plowe  manne  and  carter/ 

Shall  se  what  alyfe  we  have  led. 
Howe  we  have  this  five  hondred  yeres/ 
Roffled  theym  amonge  the  bryres/ 

Of  desperate  infidelite. 
And  howe  we  have  the  worlde  brought/ 
Vnto  beggery  worsse  then  nought/ 

Through  oure  chargeable  vanite. 
Which  knowen/  we  shalbe  abhorred/ 
Reddi  to  be  knocked  in  the  forhed/ 

Oure  welth  taken  awaye  clene. 
Therfore  Tyrant  playe  nowe  thy  parte/ 
Seynge  with  the  devill  thou  arte/ 

Gretter  then  eny  manne  hath  bene. 
Put  the  gospel  a  waye  quyght/ 
That  he  come  not  to  laye  mens  sightf 

Forto  knowe  goddis  commaundements. 
And  then  we  that  are  the  remmenaunt/ 

Shall  diligently 


Shall  diligently  be  attendaunt/ 

To  blynde  theym  with  oure  commentis. 
If  they  have  once  inhibicion/ 
In  no  maner  of  condicion/ 

To  rede  goddis  wordc  and  his  lawes. 
For  vs  doctours  of  theology/ 
It  shalbe  but  a  smale  mastery/ 

To  make  theym  foles  and  dawes. 
Loke  what  thou  dost  by  tyranny/ 
We  will  alowe  it  by  sophistry/ 

Agaynst  these  worldly  villaynes. 
WviX.  C  Nowe  truly  this  is  the  meanynge/ 
Howe  soever  be  the  speakynge/ 

Of  these  spretuall  lordaynes. 
H  But  what  sayde  the  Cardinall  here  at  ? 
Htf.   <[  He  spake  the  wordes  of  Pilat/ 

Sayinge/  I  fynde  no  fault  therin. 
Howe  be  it|  the  bisshops  assembled/ 
Amonge  theym  he  examened 

What  was  best  to  determyn  ? 
Then  answered  bisshop  Cayphas/    ffoc  est. 
That  a  grett  parte  better  it  was/      London 

The  gospell  to  be  condemned.  Episcopus. 
Lest  their  vices  manyfolde/ 
Shulde  be  knowen  of  yonge  and  olde/ 

Their  estate  to  be  contempned. 
The  Cardinall  then  incontinent/ 
Agaynst  the  gospell  gave  iudgeraent/ 

Sayinge/  to  brenne  he  deserved. 
Wherto  all  the  bisshoppis  cryed/ 
Answerynge/  it  cannot  be  denyed/ 

He  is  worthy  so  to  be  serred.  j. 


The  second  passage  of  The  dialogue  indelibly  fixes  the  first  burning  of 
the  printed  New  Testament — not,  as  has  been  often  thought,  on  11 
February  1526,  on  the  occasion  of  the  humiliation  of  Dr.  Barnes,  when 
Bishop  Fisher  preached  a  sermon  against  the  Lutherans  within,  and 
Lutheran  books  were  burnt  *  before  the  rode  of  Northern '  without  St. 
Paul's  church  :  but  in  connection  with  Bishop  Ton  stall's  sermon  at  Paul's 
Cross,  after  the  *  conspiracy '  of  Wolsey  and  the  bishops.  The  important 
allusion  to  The prologge,  see/.  10  of  the  lithographed  text,  will  be  referred 
to  again. 


JSoL  C  Holde  thy  peace  and  be  content/ 
The  gospell  by  a  commaundment/ 

To  do  it  will  strayghtly  theym  compelL 
Hd  C  They  sett  nott  by  the  gospell  a  flye/ 
Diddest  thou  nott  heare  whatt  villany/ 
Th[c]y  did  vnto  the  gospell  ? 
Wat.  a  Why/  did  they  agaynst  hym  conspyrc? 
||(f.    ([  By  my  trothe  they  sett  hym  a  fyrc/ 
Openly  in  London  cite. 

Wat.  c  Who 


®tat.  C  ^Vho  caused  it  so  to  be  done? 

gtt     C  I"  sothe  the  Bisshoppe  of  London/ 
With  the  Cardinallis  authorite : 
Which  at  Paulis  crosse  cmestly/ 
Denounced  it  to  be  heresy/ 
That  the  gospell  shuld  come.to  lyght. 
Callynge  them  heretikes  execrable/ 
Whiche  caused  the  gospell  venerable/ 
To  come  vnto  laye  mens  syght. 


32   WILLIAM  ROY'S  CONNECTION  WITH  THESE  EDITIONS. 


.M- 


He  declared  there  in  his  furiousnes/ 
That  he  fownde  erroures  more  and  les/ 

Above  thre  thousande  in  the  translacion. 
Howe  be  it  when  all  cam  to  pas/ 
I  dare  saye  vnable  he  was/ 

Of  one  erroure  to  make  probacion. 
Alas  he  sayde/  masters  and  frendes/ 
Consyder  well  nowe  in  youre  myndes/ 

These  heretikis  diligently. 
They  saye  that  commen  women/ 
Shall  assone  come  vnto  heven/ 

As  those  that  lyve  perfectly. 
.   <[  And  was  that  their  very  sayinge  ? 
<[  After  this  wyse  with  oute  faynynge/ 

In  a  certayne  prologe  they  wryte. 

That  a 


That  a  whoare  or  an  open  synner/ 
By  meanes  of  Christ  oure  redemer/ 

Whome  god  to  repent  doth  incyte. 
Shall  soner  come  to  saluacion/ 
By  meritis  of  Christis  passion/ 

Then  an  outwarde  holy  lyver. 
JEtst.  C  They  did  there  none  wother  thinge  shewe/ 
Then  is  rehearced  in  mathewe/ 

In  the  one  and  twenty  chapter. 
^ti.   C  For  all  that/  he  sayde  in  his  sermone/ 
Rather  then  the  gospell  shdlde  be  comone/ 

Bryngynge  people  into  erroure 
He  wolde  gladly  soffre  marterdome/ 
To  vpholde  the  devyls  fredome/ 

Of  whom  he  is  a  confessoure, 

C.  ij  &  iij. 


\,  We  get  further  information  of  Roy's  connection  with  the  first  New 
Testaments  from  the  following  letter  of  Herman  Rinck,  written  to  Wolsey 
the  4th  October   1528.     The  original  MS.  is  imperfect  at  the  edges  r 


on 

hence  the  gaps  in  the  following  Latin. 

HERMANN   RINCK   TO  WOLSEY. 

Sanctissime  ac  gratiosissime  pater  in  Christo 
ac  domine  ....  clementissime,  post  humilis 
benevolique  servitii  me[i]  titudinem  ad  qusevis 

vestrae  sanctitati  beneplacita,  obsequen  .... 
grata  obnixa  ac  sincera  mente,  vestram  gratiam,  ac 
paternita[tem]  scire  exopto,  quatenus  etc. 

Literae  gratiae  vestrae  ad  me  datae  per  dominum 
lohannem  West,  sacerdotem  ordinis  divi  Fran- 
cis[ci]  de  Observantia,  scriptae  quinto  Augusti,  le 
apud^  Hampton  Korte,  in  vestrae  gratiae  pallat[io] 
mihi  a  Colonia  ad  Francofordiam  in  biduo  celeri 
nuncio  sunt  missae  et  perlatae,  21  Septembris,  de 
commercandis  undique  libris  Anglica  lingua  ex- 
cussis,  et  de  capiendis  Roy  et  Huckynck.  At  illi  et 
eorum  complices  a  paschate*  et  proximis  quad- 
ragesimae  nundinis  Francofordiae  non  sunt  visi, 
neque  scitur  quo  abicrunt,  superstites  ne  sint  an 
vita  functi.3  Neque  lohannes  Schott,  civis  Argen- 
tinensis  et  eorum  chalcographus,*  se  scire  dixit  quo 
evanuissent.'  Sunt  autem  ipsorum  libri  referti 
hseresi,  ac  contra  vestrae  gratiae  magnificentiam  et 
honoremjpleni  invidia  et  infamia,  qui  et  pessime  et 
praeter  Christianam  charitatem,  regiam  serenitatem, 
benignissimum  dominum  meum  et  generosissimum 


TRANSLATION. 

Most  holy  and  most  gracious  father  in  Christ, 
most  merciful  lord — after  offering  my  humble  and 
willing  service  to  your  Holiness's  pleasure,  with 
grateful  and  sincere  mind,  I  wish  to  inform  your 
grace  and  fatherhood  as  follows. 

Your  grace's  letters  dated  Aug.  5,  at  your  palace 
of  Hampton  Court,  were  given  to  me  by  John 
West  priest  of  the  order  of  St.  Francis  de  Obser- 
vantia, at  Cologne  on  Sept.  21,  having  been  sent  on 
from  Frankfort  by  a  swift  messenger  in  two  days, 
which  letters  ordered  me  to  buy  up  everywhere 
books  printed  in  English,  and  to  arrest  Roy  and 
Hutchins.  They  and  their  accomplices  have  not 
been  seen  at  Frankfort  since  Easter^  and  the  market 
after  Lent,  and  it  is  not  known  whither  they  have 
gone,  and  whether  they  are  alive  or  dead.^  John 
Schott,  citizen  of  Strasburg,  their  engraver,*  says 
he  does  not  know  whither  they^  have  vanished. 
Their  books  indeed  are  stuffed  Miith  heresy,  full 
of  envy  and  slander  against  your  grace's  glory  and 
honour,^  and  what  is  worst  and  contrary  to  Christ- 
ian charity,  make  the  king's  serenity,  my  most  kind 
and  noble  lord  and  illustrious  prince,  infamous  to 
all  worshippers  of  Christy    However,  I,  as  a  most 


^  1  for  'apud  le  Hampton  Courte.' 

•  Easter  Day  in  1528  fell  on  12  April.  There- 
fore Tyndale,  or  Roy,  or  both  of  them  were  at 
Frankfort  fair  about  April  1528. 


'  Tyndale  at  least  had  gone  on  to  Marburg,  and 
was  there  when  Rinck  was  writing  this  letter. 
♦  i.e.  printer. 

"  Schott  possibly  never  knew  Tyndale. 
8  Rinck  is  referring  to  Roy's  Satire. 


I  VILLI  AM  ROY'S  CONNECTION  WITH  THESE  EDITIONS.  33 


HERMANN    RINCK    TO   WOLSEY. 

et  illustrissimum  principcm,  omnibus  christicolis  in- 
famcm  reddunt.  Ego  tamen  tanquam  humillimus 
fidelissimus  et  diligentissimus  minister,  tribus  heb- 
domadibus^  ante  vestrae  gnitix  acccptas  literas, 
audivi  et  percepi  illos  ipsos  libros  ludeis  Franco- 
fordiae  certo  acre  vel  nummo  oppigneratos  esse,  et 
turn  quam  primum  pro  ipsis  consequendis  ex  me- 
ipso  elaborabam,  et  sollicitus  eram.  Chalcographus 
autem  lohannes  Schott  prater  faenus  ludaeis  dan- 
dum  et  sui  laboris  mercedem  et  papiri  sumptum 
exigebat,  et  illi  se  eos  venditurum  aicbat  qui  plus 
pecuniae  offerret  Cum  itaque  gratia  vestra  mihi 
literas  et  mandata  ex  Anglia  mittebat,  illico  neque 
corpora  neque  pecuniae  neque  diligentiae  parcebam 
(ut  merito  debebam)  sed  privilegiis  a  Caesarea 
Maiestatc  olim  acceptis  utebar.  Consules  Franco- 
fordienses  et  aliquot  senatores  ac  iudices  mihi  donis 
et  muneribus  conciliabam,  quo  libros  illos  omnes, 
omni  ex  loco  corraderera  et  coacervarem  quod  et 
tribus  aut  quatuor  locis  factum  est,  ita  quod  spero, 
quotquot  talium  librorum  excussi  sunt  eos  apud  me 
contineri,  praeter  duos  quos  vestrae  gratiae  commis- 
sarius  praenominatus  lohannes  West,  a  me  exoptavit 
et  accepit,  in  maiorem  et  frugem  et  utilitatem  regiae 
gratiae  et  vestrae.  Libros  vero  duos  ipsi  dedi,  cum 
eum  turn  fidclem  tum  diligentem  vestrae  gratiae 
comperirem,  et  cui  saepe  inserviisset,  et  adhuc  pro- 
cul  dubio  inserviet.  Debebant  autem  libri  ipsi, 
(nisi  pcrcepissem  et  intervenissem)  in  thecas  chart- 
aceas  compingi  et  occultari,  et  decem  inclusas 
sarcinis,  lino  obductis,  callide  et  sine  omni  sus- 
picione,  per  mare,  tempore  transmitti  in  Schotiam 
et  Angliam,  ut  ibidem  ac  sola  et  nuda  papirus 
venderentur,  sed  admodum  paucos  aut  nullos 
transvectos  vel  venditos  puto.  Caeterum  et  .  .  . 
.  .  et  procuravi  coram  consulibus  Franckfordien- 
^bus  iuramentis  acceptis  [et]  praestitis,  quod  denuo 
non  excudentur  typis  aeneis,  tum  chalcographus 
ipse  vigore  sui  iuramenti  exemplar  scriptum  et 
prindpale  ad  me  mittere  obstrictus  est.  Insuper  et 
summa  opera  curabo  in  praedictis  Roy  et  Huckyng 
caeterisque  regiae  gratix  et  vestrae  aemulis  et  re- 
bellionibus,  tum  capiendis,  tum  ubi  locorum  agant, 
perdpiendo,  ut  dominus  lohannes  West  et  filius 
meus  Hermannus  Rynck,  et  lohannes  Geilkyrche, 
meus  minister  ore  et  praescntes  testabuntur,  quibus 
vestra  gratia  non  secus  ac  mihi  ip^  fidem  adhibeat 
et  praebeat;  ipsi  enim  rem  omnem  et  celabunt  et 
obticebunt,  quamcumque  vestra  gratia  ipsis  com- 
miserit,  quos  praecipue  et  praesentes  ad  regiam  et 


TRANSLATION, 

humble,  faithful  and  diligent  servant,  three  weeks ' 
before  receiving  your  grace's  letters,  heard  and 
perceived  that  those  very  books  had  been  pawned  to 
the  Jews  at  Frankfort  for  a  certain  sum  of  money, 
and  then,  on  my  own  account,  I  laboured  and  en- 
deavoured to  get  hold  of  them  as  soon  as  possible. 
The  engraver,  John  Schott,  demanded  beside  the 
interest  for  the  Jews,  the  pay  for  his  labour  and 
the  expense  of  the  paper,  and  said  that  he  should 
sell  them  to  whoever  would  give  the  most  money. 
So,  as  your  grace  had  sent  me  letters  and  commis- 
sions from  England,  I  immediately  spared  neither 
my  person,  my  money  nor  my  trouble,  (as  I  was 
bound  to  do,)  but  made  use  of  the  privileges  pre- 
viously received  from  his  Imperial  Majesty.  I 
gained  over  the  consuls  of  Frankfort  and  some 
senators  and  judges,  by  gifts  and  presents,  so  that 
I  might  scrape  and  heap  together  all  those  books 
from  every  place ;  which  was  done  in  three  or  four 
places,  so  that  I  hope  that  all  of  those  books  yet 
printed  are  in  my  possession,  except  two  which 
your  grace's  commissary  the  above  named  John 
West  asked  for  and  received  from  me  for  the 
greater  profit  and  advantage  of  th»  king's  grace  and 
yours.  Two  books  indeed,  I  gave  him,  as  I  found 
him  faithful  and  diligent  for  yoiu-  grace,  whom  he 
has  often  served  and  doubtless  will  in  future  serve. 
Unless  I  had  discovered  it,  and  interfered,  the  books 
would  have  been  enclosed  and  hidden  in  paper 
covers,  packed  in  ten  bundles  covered  with  Unen 
and  conveyed  in  time  by  sea,*  craftily  and  without 
exciting  any  suspicion  to  Scotland  and  J^ngland, 
where  they  would  have  been  sold  only  as  blank 
paper ;  but  I  think  that  very  few,  or  none,  have 
been  exported  or  sold.  Besides  1  have  .  .  .  and 
procured  from  the  consuls  of  Frankfort  a  prohibi- 
tion strengthened  by  oaths,  of  their  further  printing 
from  copper  types,  and  the  engraver  himself  is 
bound  by  his  oath  to  send  me  the  original  written 
copy.  In  addition  to  this,  I  will  endeavour  in  every 
way  to  arrest  Roy  and  Hutchins  and  other  op- 
ponents and  rebels  of  the  king's  grace  and  yours, 
and  to  find  out  where  they  Uve,  as  John  West,  and 
my  son  Hermann  Rynck  and  John  Geilkyrche  my 
servant  will  assure  you  by  word  of  mouth,  to  whom 
your  grace  may  give  credence  just  as  to  myself,  for 
they  will  keep  silence  concerning  and  conceal  what- 
ever orders  your  grace  gives  them.  I  send  them 
now  to  the  king's  grace  and  yours,  chiefly  on  ac- 
count of  the  favourable  issue  of  the  business,  and 


1  i.e.  about  i  Sept.  1528. 

■  By  whom  ?    Probably  English  merchants,  who 


would  have  repaid  the  Jews'  loan  and  reimbursed 

Schott. 

E 


34    WILLIAM  ROY'S  CONNECTION  WITH  THESE  EDITIONS. 


HERMANN    RINCK   TO  \IIOLSEy. 

vestram  gratiam  transmitto,  ob  commodiorem  ipsius 
negotii  exitum,  et  ut  rem  gratam  regiee  et  vestrse 
gratiae  exhibeam  et  faciam.  Totaque  vita  mea 
cum  omnibus  et  prognatis  et  posteris  hac  in  re 
sollicitus  et  sedulus  ero  provisor.  Neque  mei  laboris, 
conatus  et  pecuniae  a  me  expensae  elapsis  multis 
annis  neque  per  me  neque  meos  posteros  expetam 
et  efflagitabo,  sed  singula  regiae  gratiae  et  vestrae 
promissis  committo,  prorsusque  confido  permagnas 
vestrae  providentiae,  iuxta  operam  meam  quam 
collocavi  in  electione  Caesareae  Majestatis,  et  regiae 
gratiae,  et  secundum  vestra  pollicita,  si  sponsalia 
inter  Caesarem  Carolum  et  regiae  gratiae  filiam  pro- 
gressum  et  excitum  sortita  fuissent,  turn  in  ipsis 
omnem  meam  impendissem  diligentiam  et  indus- 
triam,  turn  per  me,  tum  meos  et  cognates  et  affines 
omnibus  modis  expedivissem.  Nunc  vero  sponsa- 
liciis  non  executis  vel  progredientibus,  spero  alio 
beneficio  regia  gratia  me  condonabit,  ut  suae  gratiae 
literae  apertius  indicabunt. 

Praeterea,  anno  dommi  1502,  mensis  Augusti, 
maximum  privilegium  a  Caesarea  Maiestate  regiae 
gratiae  in  Anglia  et  intercursum  negotiatorum 
a  Caesarea  Maiestate  concessum  largissima 
libertate,  impetrare  iuvi  et  opitulatus  sum, 
per  Caesaris  et  regiae  gratiae  commissarios  in 
usum  et  commodum  omnium  in  Anglia  regiae 
gratiae  subditorum,  ut  manifestius  est  eo  in 
loco,  ubi  episcopus  Cantuargensis  Doctor  Domi- 
nus  Warren,  antea  commissarius  cum  Carolo  de 
Sowmerschett,  piae  memoriae,  camerario  regis 
Angliae,  Becem  millia  librarum  sterlingarum  contulit 
regiae  gratiae,  dum  ego,  nomine  Caesareae  Majes- 
tatis, huius  regis  patri  praesens  obtuli  privilegium, 
praesentibus  suis  optimatibus,  et  consiliariis,  in  le 
Westmunster,  tum  religiosis,  tum  secularibus, 
simul  et  decern  mil[l]ia  librarum  sterlingarum  data 
accepi  mittenda  Csesari  Maximiliano,  quae  eidem 
Caesari  et  contuli  et  meo  secrete  sigillo  libera  com- 
probavi  et  soluta  esse  testatus  sum,  proprioque  et 
nomine  et  cognomine  in  maiorem  fidem  meipsum 
subscripsi,  ac  ambasiatorem  vel  legatum  Caesareae 
Maiestatis  decuit,  quod  Caesarea  Maiestas  eiusque 
successores  illud  ratum  et  sancitum  habere  deber- 
ent,  ipsumque  a  Caesare  Carolo  nunc  et  renovatum 
et  confirmatum  aestimo,  vel  saltern  augendum  regiae 
gratiae  facile  sitpassurus,  et  consensum  concessurus, 
ad  quod  consequendum,  humile  et  exiguum  ob- 
sequium  (si  Anglia  vestra  opus  habuerit,  et  Regia 
gratia  mihi  mandaverit)  paratissimum  et  me  sine 
mora  advent  .  .  .  iure  debeo,  ac  sponte  volo, 
aut  vellem,  ad  Caesaream  Maiesta[tera  in]  His- 
paniam  aut  alibi>  quorsum  sua  Regia  gratia  tunc 


TRANSLATION. 

that  I  may  show  and  do  a  thing  pleasing  to  the 
king's  grace  and  yours.  During  the  whole  of  my 
life,  I,  with  all  my  children  and  posterity,  will  care- 
fully and  sedulously  attend  to  this  matter,  and  will 
not  ask  or  demand,  either  personally  or  by  my 
descendants,  any  return  for  the  labour,  trouble  and 
money  which  I  have  spent  for  many  years,  but  I 
commit  everything  to  the  promises  of  the  king's 
grace  and  yours,  trusting  completely  in  your  great 
prudence,  in  consideration  of  the  assistance  which  I 
gave  the  king's  grace  at  the  election  of  his  Imperial 
Majesty,  and  according  to  your  promises,  if  the 
espousals  between  the  Emperor  Charles  and  the 
king's  grace's  daughter  had  been  proceeded  with 
and  taken  effect ;  in  which  I  used  all  my  diligence 
and  industry,  and  employed  all  my  relations  and 
connections.  Now  that  the  espousals  have  not 
been  executed  and  are  not  still  in  progress,  I  hope 
that  the  king's  grace  will  favour  me  with  some  other 
kindness,  as  his  grace's  letters  openly  declare. 

Besides,  in  the  year  1302,  in  the  month  of  August, 
I  aided  and  assisted  in  obtaining  a  great  privilege 
from  the  Emperor's  Majesty,  for  the  king's  grace 
in  England,  and  the  mercantile  intercourse  which 
was  granted  with  the  most  ample  liberty  by  the 
Imperial  Majesty,  through  his  and  the  king's 
grace's  commissioners,  to  the  profit  and  advan- 
tage of  all  the  king's  grace's  subjects  in  Eng- 
land ;  as  was  more  apparent  at  the  time  when  the 
bishop  of  Canterbury,  Dr.  Warham,  formerly  com- 
missioner with  Charles  Somerset,  of  pious  memory, 
chamberlain  of  the  king  of  England,  offered  in  the 
name  of  the  king's  grace,  ;^io,ooo  sterling  ;  while  I, 
in  the  name  of  the  Emperor's  Majesty,  offered  in 
person  the  privilege  to  the  father  of  the  present 
king,  in  the  presence  of  his  peers  and  counsellors 
spiritual  and  secular,  at  Westminster,  and  received 
the  ;^io,ooo  sterling  to  be  sent  to  the  Emperor  Maxi- 
milian, to  whom  I  gave  the  said  sum  and  attested 
the  delivery  with  my  own  private  seal,  signing  my 
own  name  and  surname  for  greater  security,  as  was 
fit  for  an  ambassador  or  legate  of  the  Emperor's 
Majesty ;  and  the  Emperor's  Majesty  and  his  suc- 
cessors ought  to  keep  it  valid  and  secure.  I  believe 
that  it  has  now  been  renewed  and  confirmed  by  the 
Emperor  Charles,  or  at  least  he  would  easily  allow 
it  to  be  increased,  and  would  grant  his  consent  to 
the  king's  grace  ;  in  obtaining  which  I  offer  my 
humble  and  small  but  ready  service,  (if  England 
has  need  and  the  king's  grace  orders,)  and  would  go 
without  delay,  (as  I  ought  of  right,  and  as  I  freely 
wish  and  would  wish  to  do,)  to  the  Emperor's 
Majesty    in     Spain  or    elsewhere,    wherever    the 


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HERMANN  RINCK   TO  WOLSEY. 

iusserit  profici  .  .  .  obsequentissimus  turn 
minister,  turn  ambnsiator  sive  legatu[s  .  .  . 
eisdcm  privilegiis,  iuxta  quae  et  me  habeo  erga 
regiam  gratiam.  In  quibu[s]  .  .  .  privilegiis, 
meo  tudicio,  continetur  quod  per  totum  Komanum 
imperium  p[r3Ecipue]  in  Germania  obstrepentes 
Angliac  regi  neque  eiusdem  traditores  dcbcant  con- 
servari  aut  perpeti,  multo  minus haeretici.scditionem 
Christianorum  excitantes  totius  Anglici  regni.  Qua 
propter  eiusde[m]  privilegii  vigore  et  lege,  Emundus 
de  Lapoell  qui  se  ducem  Suffolx[iae]  nominabat,  per 
regem  Philippum  desiderabatur  ut  dignum  erat  in 
Angliam  adduci.  Deinde  et  Wilhelmus  Roy,  Wil- 
helmus  T>'ntaell,  Hieronim[us]  Barlo,  Alexander 
Barckley  et  eorum  adhaerentes,etc.,  olim  observantes, 
ordinis  Divi  Francisci,  nunc  vero  apostatae.  Nec- 
non  et  Georgius  Constans,  et  alii  complures,  regix 
gratise  obstrepentes,  capi  plecti  et  oflerri  deb?bant, 
ob  haeresim  lutheranam,  turn  delendam,  turn  eradi- 
candam  et  ad  fidem  Christianam  confirmandam,  ut 
plurimum  nunc  opus  est  in  Anglias  regno.  Hanc 
meam  opinionem  multo  clarius,  prjedlctum  privi- 
legium  ostendet,  cujus  exemplar  nullum  mihi 
retinui,  sed  gratiae  vestrae  excellentissima  prudentia 
haec  multo  prudentius  perpendere  et  agere  potest, 
quam  ipse  scriptis  exprimere  valeo.  Cum  itaque 
tale  mandatum  hue  ad  me  missum  fuerit,  deo 
Optimo  maximo  in  honorem  ac  vestrae  gratia:  toiius- 
que  regni  Anglici  turn  Christiane,  turn  diligen- 
tissime,  omnibus  viribus  et  sedulo  ipsum  exequar. 
Hoc  itaque  modo',  regiae  gratiae  et  vestrae  omnibus- 
que  turn  religiosis  turn  saecularibus  subditis 
Anglici  regni  in  salutem  et  commodum  quantum 
potui  divino  opitulamine  et  iuxta  vestrae  gratiae 
mandatum,  hsereticorum  libros  inquisiAd  ncque 
labori  neque  pecuniae  parcens,  sed  Francofordiam 
ad  nundinas  abii,  tum  papali  tum  Cajsareo  man- 
dato  cum  ipsis  egi,  praesertim  usus  sum  iisdem 
privilegiis  vel  mandatis  quae  a  divo  Maximiliano 
Caesare,  et  nunc  modemo  imperatore  Carolo  conse- 
cutus  sum,  olim  calcographum  ipsum  lohannem 
Schott  coram  consulibus  iudicibus  et  senatoribus 
Francofordiensibus  iureiurando  compuli,  ut  fateretur 
quot  libros  tales  excusserit  in  lingua  Anglica, 
Germanica,  Gallica,  aut  alio  ideomate,  tunc  ad 
sacramentum  dictum  fatebatur  quod  solum  mille 
sex  quatemionum  et  adhuc  miHc  libros  novenv^qua- 
temionum   Anglico    sermone    excussisset,  et    hoc 


TRANSLATION. 

king's  grace  might  order,  as  an  obedient  servant, 
ambassador  or  legate,  [to  obtain]  the  same  privi- 
leges, according  to  which  I  act  towards  the  king's 
grace.  These  privileges,  in  my  opinion,  contain 
that  throughout  the  whole  Roman  Empire,  especi- 
ally in  Germany,  no  rebels  or  traitors  to  the  king  of 
England  shall  be  kept  or  suffered,  much  less 
heretics  who  excite  sedition  among  the  Christians 
of  the  whole  kingdom  of  England.  By  force  of  this 
privilege,  Edmund  de  la  Pole,  who  called  himself 
the  duke  of  Suffolk,  was  demanded  by  king  Philip, 
to  be  sent  into  England,  as  was  fitting.  Then 
William  Roy,  William  T5mdale,  Jerome  Barlow,^ 
Alexander  Barclay,*  and  their  adherents,  formerly 
Qbservants  of  the  order  of  St.  Francis,  but  now 
apostates,  George  Constans'  also,  and  Bany  other 
rebels  of  the  king's  grace,  ought  to  be  arrested, 
punished  and  delivered  up  on  account  of  the 
Lutheran  heresy,  which  ought  to  be  blotted  out 
and  rooted  up,  to  confirm  the  Christian  faith,  of 
which  there  is  much  need  in  the  kingdom  of  Eng- 
land. This  opinion  of  mine  the  aforesaid  privilege 
will  show  much  more  clearly,  but  I  have  retained 
no  copy  of  it.  Your  grace's  excellent  prudence 
however  will  be  able  to  consider  and  manage  these 
matters  more  prudently  than  I  can  express  them  in 
writing.  When  therefore  such  a  mandate  comes  to 
me  hither,  I  will  execute  it  to  the  honour  of 
Almighty  God,  your  grace  and  the  whole  realm  oi 
England,  as  a  Christian,  and  with  all  my  diligence, 
strength  and  care.  In  this  manner  therefore,  foi 
the  safety  and  profit  of  the  king's  grace  apd  yours, 
and  of  all  the  subjects  of  the  English  realm,  both 
religious  and  secular,  as  far  as  I  could  with  divine 
help,  and  according  to  your  grace's  command,  I 
searched  for  heretical  books,  sparing  neither  labour 
nor  money.  I  went  to  the  market  at  Frankfort 
with  a  papal  and  imperial  mandate,  using  espe- 
cially the  privileges  or  mandates  which  I  obtained 
from  the  late  Emperor  Maximilian  and  now  hold 
from  the  present  emperor  Charles.  I  compelled 
the  engraver  John  Schott  to  take  an  oath  before 
the  consuls,  judges,  and  senators  of  Frankfort  to 
confess  how  many  of  such  books  he  had  printed  in 
English,  German,  French  or  other  languages. 
Then  he  confessed  on  oath  that  he  had  only  printed 
hitherto  a  thousand  books  of  six  quires  *  and  a 
thousand  of  nine  quires  ♦  in  the  English  tongue,  at 


'    Here  we  ^et  the  surname  of   'frere  Jerome.' 
»  The   Enehih  translator  of  T/u  Ship  of  Foo 


How  did  he  come  into  this  list  ? 
'  ».*.  Constantine. 


♦  Or  signatures,  i.e.  sheets.  Roy's  Rtde  mt 
consists  of  nine  signatures.  I  suppose  TA*  Dia- 
loge  out  o/laten  to  oe  the  one  of  six  sheets. 

E  2 


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HERMANN    RINCK    TO   WOLSEY. 

iussu  Roy  et  Huckyngk,^  qui  sere  charentes,  libros 
excussos  solvere  non  poterant,  multo  minus  eos  in 
caeteris  linguis  excudi  facere.  Quare  ipsos  ferme 
omnes  emptos  Colonise  domi  mese  habeo,  ...  a 
gratiae  vestrae  filius  meus  persuadcbit  et  desider- 
abit  ut  vestra  gratia  me  certior[eni  faci]at  quid 
cum  ipsis  commergatis  libris  fieri  velit,  turn  omni 
diligentia  exequatur  et  fiet,  quoad  et  mihi  et  meis 
Deo  favente  possibile  fuerit  Regiae  gratiae  et  vestrae 
obsequium  praestandi.  Valeat  igitur  gratia  vestra 
multis  faelicibus  annis.  Datum  Coloniae,  quarto 
nonas  Octobris,  anno  1528. 

Obsequiosissimus  ac  deditissimus  vestrae  gratiae 
ac  sanctitatis  familiaris,  Hermannus  Rinckus, 
manu  propria  scripsit. 

Addressed,  Reverendissimo  in  Christo  patri,  ac 
domino  Thomse  Cardinal!  Ebro- 
censi,  archicancellario,  illustrissimi 
principis  regis  Angliae,  etc. 

Endorsed.  Harman  Rynge,  iiij  nonas  Octobris. 
[yUellitts,  B.  xxi.  43  ;  British  Museum.) 


TRANSLATION. 

the  order  of  Roy  and  Hutchins,^  who  had  no  money 
to  pay  for  the  books  printed,  much  less  to  have 
them  printed  in  other  languages.  Wherefore  I 
bought  almost  all  these,  and  have  them  at  my  house 
at  Cologne,  as  my  son  will  show  your  grace  and 
will  request  your  grace  to  inform  me  what  you 
wish  to  be  done  with  the  books  so  bought,  which 
shall  then  be  executed  and  done  with  all  diligence 
as  far  as  is  possible  to  me  and  mine  with  God's 
favour,  to  show  our  duty  to  the  king's  grace  and 
yours.  So  may  your  grace  fare  well  for  many 
happy  years.     Dated  at  Cologne,  4  October,  1528. 

The  most  dutiful  and  devoted  servant  to   your 
grace  and  holiness, 

Hermann  Rinck. 
Addressed.  To  the  most  reverend  Father  in 
Christ,  and  lord  Thomas  Cardinal 
of  York,  lord  Chancellor  to  the 
most  illustrious  Prince,  the  King 
of  England,  etc. 
Endorsed,    Harman  Rynge,  4  October. 


5,  In  A  Proper  Daylogej  betwene  a  gentillman  and  a  Jmshandmanl  eche 
coinplaynynge  to  other  their  miserable  calamitiej  thi'ough  the  ambicion  of  the 
clergye,  printed  by  Hans  Liift,  at  Marburg,  in  Hesse,  1530  ;  and  of  unknown 
authorship,  unless  it  be  by  Jerome  Barlow  or  William  Roy  ;  there  occur,  in 
similar  triplets,  the  following  allusions  to  the  burning  of  the  New  Testament. 


©tntillmmt. 
Yf  the  holy  gospell  allege  we  shuld 
As  stronge  heretikes  take  vs  they  would 

Vnto  their  churche  disobedient. 
For  why  they  haue  commaunded  straytely 
That  none  vnder  great  payne  be  so  hardye 

To  haue  in  englishe  the  testament. 
Which  as  thou  knowest  at  London 
The  bisshop  makinge  ther  a  sermon 

With  shamefull  blasphemy  was  brent. 


Whan  they  brennyd  the  newe  testament 
They  pretendyd  a  zele  very  feruent 

To  maynteyne  onely  goddes  honour. 
Which  they  sayde  with  protestacyon 
Was  obscured  by  translacyon 

In  englysshe/  causynge  moche  errour. 


C.  vii 


B.  ij. 


V.   The  Landing  and  Distribution  in  England. 

\,  In  addition  to  the  warnings  of  Cochlaeus  and  Rinck,  there  came 
other  tidings  to  the  king  of  the  designed  introduction  into  his  realm  of  the 
Forbidden  Book. 

Edward  Lee,  the  king's  Almoner  (who  became  Archbishop  of  York  in 


'  A  mistake :  Tyndale  had  nothing  to  do  with 
either  of  these  books.    This  statement  of  Schott's  is 


conclusive  that  the  English  New  Testaments,  which 
wereoi  much  greater  bulk,  were  not  printed  by  him. 


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1 53 1,  and  d,  13th  September,  1544),  journeying  into  Spain,  wTote  a 
letter  to  the  king,  from  Bordeaux,  on  2nd  December,  1525,  in  which  he 
thus  announces  what  he  had  learnt  in  his  hurried  journey  through  France 
in  the  previous  month  of  November. 

Please  it  your  Highncsse  to  undrestand  that  sithen  I  found  so  large  occasion  by  Englishe  merchaunts, 
your  subjects  I  could  no  lesse  than  advertise  your  Grace  as  well  howe  farr  I  am  proccded  in  my  iornaye, 
as  also  of  the  successe  in  the  same.  This  seconde  daye  of  Decembr  I  arrived  at  Burdeaulx,  aftre  a  con- 
tinuall  and  as  diligente  jomaye  as  this  pouer  bodie  and  my  cariages  togidr  would  suffr,  not  sparinge 
oone  daye,  Sonda)'es  oonelie  except,  and  oone  day  at  Parisse,  for  the  relief  of  my  self  and  my  hors.  In 
certayne  places,  as  Bolayne,  Mottrell,  Abbevil,  Bloys,  and  this  towne  Burdeaulx,  I  fownd  cortesie  and 
honor  in  the  reverence  of  your  royall  Majestie.  At  Pariss,  Orleanns,  and  oodr,  besides  thees  rehersed, 
none.  The  people  shcwe  them  self  joyfull  of  the  peax,  wiche  they  wisshe  to  be  perdurable,  God 
knowethe  they  have  mutche  neede  of  it.     .    . 

Please  it  your  Highnesse  moreover  to  undrestand  that  I  am  certainlie  enformed  as  I  passed  in  this 
contree  that  an  Englishman,  your  subject,  at  the  solicitation  and  instance  of  Luther,  with  whome  he  is, 
hathe  translated  the  Newe  Testament  in  to  English,  and  within  fewe  dayes  entendcthe  to  arrive  with  the 
same  emprinted  in  Englond.  I  neede  not  to  advertise  your  Grace  what  infection  and  daunger  may  ensue 
heerbie,  if  it  be  not  withstonded.  This  is  the  next  way  to  fulfill  your  realme  with  Lutherians.  For  all 
Luthers  perverse  opinions  bee  grownded  opon  bar  words  of  Scriptur  not  well  taken  ne  vndrestonded, 
wiche  your  Grace  hathe  opened  in  sondrie  places  of  your  royall  Booke.  All  our  forfadres,  governors  of 
the  Churche  of  Englond,  hathe  with  all  diligence  forbed  and  exchued  publication  of  Englishe  bibles,  as 
apperethe  in  Constitutions  provincial!  of  the  Churche  of  Englond.  Nowe,  Sir,  as  God  hathe  endued  your 
Grace  with  Christen  courauge  to  sett  forthe  the  standard  against  thies  Philistees  and  to  venquish  them,  so 
I  doubte  not  but  that  he  will  assist  your  Grace  to  prosecute  and  performe  the  same  ;  that  is  to  vndre 
treade  them  that  they  shall  not  nowe  againe  lift  vppe  their  hedds,  wiche  they  endevor  nowe  by  meanes  of 
Englishe  Bibles.     They  knowe  what  hurte  such  books  hath  doone  in  your  Realme  in  tymes  passed. 

Hidretoo,  blessed  bee  God,  your  Realme  is  save  from  infection  of  Luthers  sect,  as  for  so  mutche  that 
althowg  anye  peradventur  bee  secretlie  blotted  within,  yet  for  fear  of  your  royall  Majestie,  wiche  hathe 
drawen  his  swerd  in  Gods  cause,  they  dar  not  openlie  avowe.  Wherefor  I  can  not  doubte  but  that  your 
noble  Grace  wiU  valiauntlie  maignetaine  that  you  have  so  noblie  begonne. 

This  realme  of  Fraunce  hathe  been  somewhat  tooched  with  this  sect,  in  so  mutche  that  it  hathe  entred 
amongs  the  Doctors  of  Parisse,  wherof  some  bee  in  prison,  some  fled,  some  called  in  judicium.  The 
bisshoppe  also  of  Meulx,  called  Melden,  is  summoned  for  that  cause,  for  he  suffred  Luthers  perverse 
opinions  to  bee  preched  in  his  diocese.  Faber  also,  a  man  hidertoo  noted  of  excellent  good  lief  and  lemyng 
is  called  among  them,  but  somme  saye  heer  for  displeasur,  whiche  I  can  well  think.  The  Parliament  of 
Parisse  hath  had  mutche  business  to  represse  this  Sect.  And  yet,  blessed  be  God,  your  noble  Realme  is 
yet  unblotted.  \Vherefor  lest  any  dawnger  myjht  ensue,  if  thies  Books  secreatlie  shold  bee  browght  in, 
I  thowght  my  dutie  to  advertise  your  Grace  therof,  considering  that  it  toochethe  your  highe  honor, 
and  the  wealthe  and  integrite  of  the  Christen  fayth  with  in  your  Realme  ;  whiche  can  not  long  endur  if 
thies  Bookes  may  comme  in.  The  Holie  Gost  evermor  assist  your  noble  Grace.  At  Burdeaulx,  the 
second  daye  of  Decembr.  .  .  .  Your  most  humble  preest ,  subject,  and  almosinar — Edouardh  Lee. 
Sir  Henry  Ellis's  Ortg.  Letters,  3  S.  it.  72.     The  original  is  MSS.  Cotton.   Vesf.  c.  Hi.  fol.  211.  Orig. 

2.  The  famine  in  London  in  1527  leading  to  a  vastly  increased  importa- 
tion of  Com  could  have  nothing  to  do  with  the  first  introduction  of  the 
Testaments  by  March  1526;  though  it  may  have  facilitated  their  later 
importation.     Edward  Halle's  account  is  as  follows  : 

By  reason  of  the  great  raynes,  which  fel  in  the  sowing  time  and  in  the  beginning  of  the  last  yere  now  in 
the  beguming  of  thys  yere  come  began  sore  to  fayle  throughout  the  realme,  in  so  niuche  that  in  the  citie 
of  London,  bread  for  a  whyle  was  very  skant  and  peopls  did  starue  daily  for  bread,  for  wheat  so  fayled 


38         THE  LANDING  AND  DISTRIBUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 

that  none  could  be  gotten  for  money.  Sauyng  that  the  king  of  his  goodnes  sent  to  the  citie  of  his  owne 
prouysion,  vi.  C.  [six  hundred]  quarters,  or  els  for  a  weeke  ther  had  ben  litle  bread  in  London,  yet  was  the 
scarcitie  more  then  yederth.  For  then  wheat  was  only  at  xv.  s.  [;^ii.  5J.  oaf.]  the  quarter,  and  from  thence 
it  rose  to  xx.  s.  \_£\s\  and  after  to  xxvj.  s.  viii.  d.  [;^2o]  the  quarter.  Men  sayd  that  the  negligence  was  in 
sir  Thomas  Seimer  knyght  then  Maior.  Many  substanciall  men  would  haue  made  prouision  for  their 
houses,  but  they  feared  lest  the  comminaltie  would  haue  taken  it  from  them.  Then  were  commissions 
sente  into  all  shires  and  commissioners  appoynted  to  see  what  wheat  was  in  the  realme,  and  the  commis- 
sioners ordered  that  no  wheate  should  be  conueyed  out  of  one  shire  to  another,  which  commaundment  had 
lyke  to  haue  raj-^sed  trouble,  and  specially  the  citie  of  London  with  the  same-was  sore  agreued,  for  thei  had 
no  arable  ground  to  sowe,  but  must  make  prouision  with  money,  which  prouision  was  them  denied  in 
•diuerse  shires  by  that  commaundement,  wherat  the  citezens  grudged,  so  the  Maior  and  Aldermen  seyng 
that  the  people  began  to  murmure,  came  to  the  Cardinall  and  moued  him  of  ye  mischiefe  that  was  like  to 
ensue  :  either  the  people  must  dye  for  famyne  or  els  they  wyth  strong  hand  wil  fetche  come  from  them  that 
haue  it.  To  whom  he  answered  yat  they  should  haue  wheat  ynough  out  of  Fraunce,  for  the  French  kyng 
seyd  to  me  quod  the  Cardinall  that  yf  he  had  but  three  bushels  of  come  in  all  Fraunce,  Englande  should 
haue  twayne  so  muche  he  loueth  and  regardeth  this  realme  ;  with  this  answer  thei  departed  and  euery  day 
loked  for  French  wheat,  but  none  came :  and  farther  such  wheat  as  ye  Marchauntes  of  England  had  brought 
and  shipped  in  Normandy,  and  other  places  were  ther  restrained,  so  that  the  relefe  ther  failed,  but  the 
gentle  marchauntes  of  ye  Styliard  brought  from  Danske,  Breme,  Hambrough  and  other  places  great 
plentie,  and  so  did  other  marchauntes  from  Flanders,  Holand  and  Frislande,  so  that  wheat  was  better 
chepe  in  London,  then  in  all  England  ouer.  Then  the  people  sayd,  se  how  we  had  bene  serued  by  the 
Frenchmen  in  our  necessitie  if  th[e]emperors  subiectes  had  not  holpen  vs.  For  this  kindnes  the  common 
people  loued  th[e]emperor  the  better  and  al  hys  subiectes.  The  kyng  of  hys  goodnes  hearyng  that  ye 
wheat  in  Fraunce  was  stopped,  mused  not  a  litle,  and  so  for  comfort  of  thys  cyty  of  London  he  lent  M 
[a  thousand]  quarters,  for  ye  whych  they  both  thanked  him  and  prayed  for  hym.  Then  wythin  short 
space  the  marchauntes  of  London  so  diligently  made  prouysyon  in  all  places  for  Wheat  and  Rye,  that  after 
Christmas  [1527-8]  they  lacked  none,  and  al  the  parties  adioynyng  to  themwer  fain  to  fetch  wheate  of  them 
and  none  to  them  was  denied,  notwythstanding  their  vnkynd  commaundement  geuen  that  the  Londoners 
should  none  haue  of  them.     The  xix.  yere  of  Hen.  VIII.  [22  Apr.  1527 — 21  Apr.  1528.]     Fol.  166-7. 

3*  A  principal  person  on  the  continent,  connected  with  the  Importation 
of  the  New  Testaments  into  England  was  Richard  Harman,  a  merchant  of 
the  English  factory  at  Antwerp,  respecting  whom  there  is  the  following 
Royal  prescript  extant. 

By  the  Queue. 

Anne  the  queue    Trustie  and  right  welbiloved  we  grete  you  well/  and  where  as  we  be  crediblie  enformed 

{This  is  the  queen's    that  the   berer  hereof  Richard   Herman   marchaunte   and   citizen   of   Antwerpe  in 

autography  Brabant  was  in  the  tyme  of  the  late  lorde  Cardynall  put  and  expelled  frome  his  fredome 

and  felowshipe  of  and  in  the  Englyshe  house  there  for  nothing  ells  (as  he  affermethe) 

but  oonly  for  that  that  he  dyd  bothe  withe  his  gooddis  and  pollicie  to  his  greate  hurte 

and  hynderans  in  this  worlde  helpe  to  the  settyng  forthe  of  the  newe  testamente  in 

Englyshe/  we  therefore  desire  and  instantly  praye  you  that  with  all  spede  and  fauoure 

conuenient  ye  woll  cause  this  good  and  honest  marchaunt  being  my  lordis  true  faithfull 

and  loving  subiecte  restored  to  his  pristine  fredome  libertie  and  felowshipe  aforesaid 

and  the  sonner  at  this  oure  requeste,     And  at  your  good  leyser  to  here  hym  in  suche 

thinges  as  he  hathe  to  make  further  declaration  vnto  you  in  this  behalf    Geven  vndir 

our  signett  at  my  lordis  manoure  of  Grenewiche  the  xiiijth  daye  of  May.^ 

Cotton  MSS,  Cleop.  E.  v.  fol.  350. 
Addressed  on  the  hack.        To  oure  trustie  and  right  welbiloved  Thomas  Crumwell  esquyer  chief  Secre- 

tarye  vnto  my  lorde  the  kinge  hyghnes 
Endorsed  on  the  back.         The  Queenys  Grace  letters  for  Richard  Harman. 

1  The    year  is   1534.    Cromwell  was  acting  as        made  a  Lord,  until  9  July  1536. 
Secretary  of  State  in  April  1534:    and  was  not 


^3 , 

r//^  LANDING  AND  DISTRIBUTION  IN  ENGLAND.        ^¥ nZ      ^, 

We  possess  in  a  collection  of  State  correspondence  between  England  v^*^^4^ 
and  the  Low  Countries  in  1526-31,  now  Cott.  MSS.,  Galba  B.  /x,  ^^"" 
further  information  respecting  Richard  Harman's  imprisonment  at  Ant- 
werp, on  the  accusation  of  John  Hackctt,  the  English  Envoy.  Harman 
and  his  wife  were  sent  to  prison  on  12  July  1528 ;  and  being  charged  first 
with  being  heretics,  afterwards  with  being  traitors,  were  remanded  from 
time  to  time,  while  Hackett  was  endeavouring  to  obtain  proofs  of  his  accu- 
sation; which  failing  to  do,  they  were  discharged  on  26  February  1529. 
Hackett  Avriting  in  December  1528  states  that  Harman  estimated  this  im- 
prisonment to  have  entailed  a  loss  of  two  thousand  guilders  [;^2oo  then, 
equal  to  ;^3ooo  now] ;  and  the  above  'letters'  of  Anne  Boleyn's  show 
that  he  was  expelled  of  the  English  House  at  Antwerp.  When  Hackett 
therefore  happened,  on  the  7  April  following,  to  be  in  that  city,  Harman 
got  him  arrested  for  false  imprisonment,  but  the  Amant  and  Lords  of  the 
city  after  long  deliberation  released  him.  Whereupon  Hackett  appealed 
to  the  Margrave,  and  on  the  12th  April  the  Amant  and  Lords  of  Antwerp 
were  summoned  to  the  court  at  Mechlin,  and  there  reprimanded  and 
directed  to  apologise  for  the  affront  given  to  the  English  Envoy  \  which  they 
did.  Meanwhile  Harman  sustained  *  greate  hurte  and  hynderans  in  this 
worlde.' 

We  have  in  the  first  of  Harman's  two  petitions  to  the  Emperor,  in  July 
1528,  both  written  in  Flemish,  the  exact  grounds  of  his  first  accusation; 
for  the  follo^\^ng  abstract  of  which  I  am  indebted  to  Edward  Levien,  Esq., 
M.A.,  of  the  British  Museum. 

To  the  Emperor.  Richart  Hermans  and  his  wife,  arrested  by  the  Margrave  of  Antwerp  (i)  for  having 
received  books  from  a  German  merchant  (viz.  New  Testament  in  English  without  a  gloss '),  and  sold  them 
to  an  English  merchant  who  has  had  them  conveyed  to  England  ;  did  not  know  he  had  done  wrong,  be- 
cause he  is  '  no  clerk '  [!]  (2)  Also  accused  of  sheltering  suspected  Lutherans  ;  if  so,  he  did  it  unwittingly, 
as  many  people  are  in  the  habit  of  lodging  with  him.  (3)  Also  accused  of  eating  meat  on  Saturday  ;  did 
so  with  the  knowledge  and  consent  of  his  priest.  As  money  is  due  by  and  to  him,  and  he  has  much  busi- 
ness with  English  merchants,  who  may  soon  depart  and  so  leave  him  without  means  to  pay  his  debts, 
begs  the  Emperor  will  give  the  Margrave  an  order  to  release  them  on  solvent  bail,  promising  to  return  to 
prison  when  ordered ;  especially  as  he  has  never  supported  any  of  Luther's  opinions,   fol.  131.  Orig. 

\,  Here,  as  in  our  researches  we  leave  the  continent  and  return  to  Eng- 
land, we  cannot  but  call  special  attention  to  the  secret,  we  might  almost 
say  organised  action  of  English  merchants  abroad,  by  whom  Tyndale  was 
sustained.  Tyndale  lands  at  Hamburgh,  an  unknown  man,  in  May  1524  ; 
within  eighteen  months  he  has  printed  three  books,  counting  Matthew  and 
Mark  as  one :  which  apparently  involved  an  investment  of  money  approach- 
ing to  ;^i 0,000  of  the  present  day.     He  had  to  pay  Roy  and  to  defray  the 

*  Although  the  date,  July  1528,  is  comparatively        No  other  English  edition  printed  in  Germany  before 
late,  this  can  be  no  other  than  the  Octavo,  inasmuch        this  date  is  known. 
as  Harman  bought  them*  of  a  German  merchant. 


40        THE  LANDING  AND  DISTRIBUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 

expenses  of  living,  travelling,  and  the  like  ;  yet  whether  at  Hamburgh,  at 
Cologne  or  at  Worms,  at  Marburg  or  at  Antwerp,  he  is  personally  cared  for 
and  supported  in  his  great  work.  Money  never  failed  him.  We  trace 
this  assistance  especially,  in  that  the  first  impression  of  the  Quarto  was 
reduced  from  6000  to  3000  not  on  the  score  of  money  but  from  fear  of 
detection.  And  not  only  Tyndale,  but  Roy  also.  Had  not  Rinck  been 
quick,  the  English  merchants  would  have  redeemed  his  anti-papal  works 
from  pawn,  and  scattered  them  through  England.  We  know  not  the  extent 
of  this  strong  Protestant  anti-Wolsey  feeling,  for  many  of  the  early  printed 
English  Protestant  books  which  were  produced  abroad  before  1532,  such  as 
Hortulus  Animce  in  English,  the  very  earliest  editions  of  The  Primer^  and 
the  like,  appear  to  have  utterly  perished.  Yet  there  are  sufficient  of  such 
works  extant  to  show  how  heartily  many  English  merchants  on  the  con- 
tinent laboured  for  the  Reformation  of  their  own  country. 

5,  The  printed  English  Testaments  being  ready,  there  was  a  people  pre- 
pared to  receive  them.  For  upwards  of  a  century,  amid  all  manner  of 
national  vicissitudes,  the  Lollards  had  been  multiplying  written  copies  of  the 
original  translation  of  Wycliffe  and  of  its  revised  version  by  John  Purvey. 
They  had  increased,  despite  continuous  persecution;  and  were  now  a  scattered 
unorganised  association  of  tradesmen,  craftsmen,  and  such  like,  especially 
numerous  in  those  districts  nearest  the  continent  and  therefore  most  ac- 
cessible to  influences-  from  without,  as  in  London  and  the  Eastern  Counties. 
Many  of  them  learnt  to  read — an  unusual  accomplishment  among  the  lower 
classes  at  that  time ;  and  where  they  could  not  read,  they  often  committed 
to  memory  entire  doctrinal  treatises  or  dialogues,  if  they  were  short ;  or 
whole  gospels  or  epistles  of  the  New  Testament.  Fewer  of  them  could 
write,  yet  it  was  through  the  devotion  of  those  few  that  so  many  copies  of  the 
whole  or  portions  of  Holy  Writ  were  spread  through  the  country.  They  knew 
each  other  by  the  names  of  brethren  and  sisters  in  Christy  or  as  knowii  men 
and  known  women.  We  get  an  explanation  of  these  latter  titles  in  the  follow- 
ing passage  of  a  book  entitled  The  Repressor  of  over-much  blami?tg  of  the 
Clergy,  which  one  of  their  adversaries,  Regiriald  Pecock,  then  Bishop  of 
St.  Asaph,  wrote  against  them  about  the  year  1449. 

The  firste  of  tho  textis  is  written  i.  Cor.  xiiije  'c.  in  the  eende  thus:  Sotheli  if  eny  man  vnknowith,  he 
schal  he  vnImowun>  Bi  this  text  thei  taken  that  if  eny  man  knowith  not  or  putte  not  in  what  he  mai  his 
bisynes  forto  leeme  the  writing  of  the  Bible,  as  it  Hjth  in  text,  namelich  the  writing  of  the  Newe  Testament 
he  schal  be  vnknowen  of  God  forto  be  eny  of  hise.  And  for  this,  that  thei  bisien  hem  silf  forto  leeme  and 
knowe  the  Bible,  namelich  the  Newe  Testament,  in  the  forme  as  it  is  writun  word  bi  word  in  the  Bible, 
thei  geucn  a  name  propre  to  hem  silf  and  clepen  hem  silf  knoivun  men,  as  thoug  alle  othere  han  them  ben 

1  This  is  a  very  corrupt  translation  by  Wycliffe.  ing  that  all  the  learning  of  the  age  was  against  them — 

The  Authorised  Version  has  it,  Bnt  if  any  be  igno-  based  upon  a  mistranslation,  shows  how  eager  these 

rant,  let  him  be  ignorant :  i  Cor.  xiv.  38.  The  desig-  men  were  after  the  Word  of  truth,  as  the  revelation 

nation,  though  a  perversion — very  excusable  consider-  of  the  will  and  mind  of  Cod. 


THE  LANDING  AND  DISTRIBUTION  IN  ENGLAND.        41 

vnknowun ;  and  whanne  oon  of  hem  talkith  with  an  other  of  hem  of  sum  other  iijc  [third]  man,  the  hcerer 
wole  aske  thus  :  '  Is  he  a  knowen  man  ? '  and  if  it  [be]  answerid  to  him  thus  :  '  Yhe,  he  is  a  knowen  man/ 
al  is  saaf,  perel  is  not  forto  dele  with  him  ;  and  if  it  be  answerid  to  him  thus  :  '  He  is  no  knowen  man ' 
thanne.  perel  is  castid  forto  miche  homeli  dele  with  him.     i.  53.  Ed.  i860. 

While  Lollardism  had  thus  long  been  a  standing  element  in  the  religious 
life  of  England ;  there  had  lately  come  into  the  country  from  the  continent 
two  distinct  influences  of  dissent ;  the  new  *  learning,'  Hebrew,  Greek, 
Plato,  and  the  like  ;  and  the  new  *  faith,'  the  teaching  of  Luther  and  his 
colleagues.  What  Lollardism  had  done  for  the  artisans,  these  two  in- 
fluences were  doing  for  the  Universities,  and  some  of  the  clergy  and  monks; 
unbinding  their  hearts  from  old  delusions,  attaching  utterly  new  ideas  to  old 
familiar  words,  revealing  a  new  way  of  salvation — faith  simply  on  the 
Saviour  of  mankind — and  especially  giving  insight  into  the  depth,  beauty, 
fulness,  and  sufiiciency  to  teach,  of  the  Sacred  Scriptures.  Now  the  Papal 
system  was,  and  is  chiefly  founded  upon  false  ideas  being  attached  to  words 
which  are  unquestionable.  The  English  Hierarchy,  as  we  shall  presently 
see,  instinctively  felt  that  the  sting  of  Tyndale's  translation  lay  precisely  in 
this.  Tyndale  also  knew  this  to  be  the  point  of  attack  of  all  others,  and 
inserted  the  following  Prologge  entirely  for  this  purpose ;  that  right  ideas 
should  be  attached  to  well  known  words.  The  three  thousand  errors  with 
which  his  translations  were  charged  were  for  the  most  part  but  so  many  new 
meanings  attached  to  old  words.  We  shall  see  presently  the  grossly  dis- 
honest way  in  which  that  number  of  exceptions  was  arrived  at.  Meanwhile 
we  realise  the  superlative  value  and  importance  of  a  simple  truthful  transla- 
tiori  of  the  Scriptures  over  all  mere  attacks  or  arguments,  to  the  turning  of 
the  minds  and  hearts  of  Englishmen  to  a  truer  knowledge  and  a  purer  love 
of  the  Triune  God. 

6,  One  of  the  chief  agents  in  the  distribution  in  England  was  Simon 
Fyshe,  the  author  of  The  Stipplicacyon  for  the  Beggers.  John  Fox  gives 
the  following  account  of  this  boldhearted  man  in  his  Actes^  <S>v. 

Maister  Symon  Fyshe,  borne  of  a  Noble  stock,  a  gentleman  of  graies  innc,  one  of  a  tal  stature.  A. 
xxxvi.  yeare  a  goo  the  fyrst  yeare  after  he  came  to  London  to  dwell  [which  was  about  ye  yeare  of  our 
Lord,  1525.  Ed.  1570]  theire  was  a  certeyne  playe  made  by  one  maister  Roo  of  the  same  inne  genlil- 
man,  wherin  partly  ther  was  matter  a  geinst  the  Cardinall  Wolsey.  And  where  none  durst  take  vpon 
them  to  playe  that  part  which  touched  the  saide  Cardinall,  this  forsaid  maister  fishe  toke  vpon  him  to 
do  It  wherupon  great  displeasure  followed  vpon  the  Cardinails  part.  In  somuch  as  he  being  pursued  by 
the  said  Cardinall  the  same  night  this  tragedy  was  plaid,  was  compelled  of  force  to  voyde  his  ownc 
house,  and  so  fled  oucr  sea  vnto  Tindall.  vpon  occasion  wherof  the  next  yeare  following  this  boke  was 
made,  [  being  about  the  yeare  1527)  Ed.  1570]  and  so  [not  long  after  in  tlie  yeare  (as  I  suppose)  1528,  was 
Ed.  1570]  sent  ouer  to  my  Lady  Anne  Bulleyn,  who  then  lay  at  a  pl.ice  not  farre  from  the  Courte. 
Whichc  booke  her  brother  scinge  in  her  hande,  tooke  it  and  reade  it,  and  gauc  it  heragaine,  willing  her 
earnestly  to  giue  it  to  the  king,  which  thing  she  so  did,    xst  Ed.,  1563  ;  /.  448  ;  -ind  Ed.,  1570,  p.  1152. 

We  have  quoted  this  statement  merely  to  confute  it  in  some  particulars. 
There  is  an  earlier  description  of  this  play,  which  was  performed  in  the 
Christmas  of  1526-7.     Tyndale  was  at  that  time  in  Worms. 

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42         THE  LANDING  AND  DISTRIBUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 

This  Christmas  was  a  goodly  disguisyng  plaied  at  Greis  inne,  whiche  was  compiled  for  the  moste  part,  by 
Master  lohn  Roc,  seriant  at  the  law.  xx.  yere  past,  and  long  before  the  Cardinall  had  any  aucthoritie,  the 
effecte  of  the  plaie  was,  that  lorde  gouernaunce  was  ruled  by  dissipacion  and  negligence,  by  whose  misgouer- 
nance  and  euil  order,  lady  Publike  wele  was  put  from  gouernance,  which  caused  Rumor  Populi.  Inward 
grudge  and  disdain  of  wanton  souereignitie,  to  ryse  with  a  great  multitude,  to  expell  negligence  and  dis- 
sipacion, and  to  restore  Publik  welth  again  to  her  estate,  which  was  so  done.  This  plaie  was  so  set  furth 
with  riche  and  costly  apparell,  with  straunge  diuises  of  Maskes  and  morishes  that  it  was  highly  praised  of  all 
menne,  sauyng  of  the  Cardinall,  whiche  imagined  that  the  plaie  had  been  diuised  of  hym,  and  in  a  great 
furie  sent  for  the  saied  master  Roo,  and  toke  from  hym  his  Coyfe,  and  sent  hym  to  the  Flete,  and  after  he 
sent  for  the  yong  gentlemen,  that  plaied  in  the  plaie,  and  them  hyghly  rebuked  and  thretened,  and  sent 
one  of  them  called  Thomas  Moyle  of  Kent  to  the  Flete,  but  by  the  meanes  of  freendes  Master  Roo  and 
he  wer  deliuered  at  last.  This  plaie  sore  displeased  the  Cardinall,  and  yet  it  was  neuer  meante  to  hym, 
as  you  haue  harde,  wherfore  many  wysemen  grudged  to  see  hym  take  it  so  hartely,  and  euer  the  Cardinall 
saied  that  the  Kyng  was  hyghly  displeased  with  it,  and  spake  nothyng  of  hymselfe.  TJie  xviith.  yere  of 
Hen.  VIII,:  [22  Apr.  1526 — 21  Apr.  is2j]/ol.  154.  £d.  1548. 

There  is  a  letter,  date,  6  February  1527,  in  the  State  Paper  Office, 
of  Archbishop  Warham,  deprecating  the  excessive  punishment  of  Serjeant 
Roo.  The  date  of  the  play  is  therefore  beyond  question.  It  is  certain 
that  Fyshe  did  not  go  beyond  the  seas  to  Tyndale,  in  January  1527.  He 
may  for  a  time  have  been  in  hiding  :  otherwise  when  the  storm  had  blown 
over  he  occupied  his  own  house  in  Whitefriars  up  to  the  spring  of  1528,* 
and  was  busily  engaged  in  superintending  the  sale  of  the  New  Testaments 
which  he  had  received  from  Richard  Harman. 

William  Rastell,  Serjeant  at  law,  who  edited  the  English  'Workes'  of  his 
uncle  Sir  Thomas  More,  states  that  T/ie  Supplycacyon  of  Soulys  was 
'made'  in  1529.  It  was  certainly  ^r///^;z  after  Tyndale's  Obediejice  of  a 
Chi'istia7i  Man  (the  printing  of  which,  at  Marburg  in  Hesse,  was  finished 
on  8  October  1528)  had  reached  England,  as  the  note  at  /.  28  testifies. 
It  could  therefore  have  hardly  been  written  wwiA  early  in  1529.  It  was 
published — as  the  title-page  of  the  first  edition  witnesses — while  More  was 
still  only  Chancellor  •  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  and  therefore  before 
25  October  1529,  when  he  became  Lord  Chancellor.  More  was  also 
abroad  signing  the  Treaty  of  Cambrai  in  July  and  August  [the  treaty  was 
signed  on  5  August],  and  with  the  King  at  Woodstock  in  September  :  his 
Supplicacyon  was  therefore  m  all  likelihood  written  in  the  spring  of  the 
year,  though  it  may  have  been  published  while  he  was  on  the  continent. 

The  composition  of  More's  Supplicacyon  fixes  with  certainty  the  public- 
ation of  Fyshe's  Supplicacyon  for  the  Meggers,  to  which  it  is  a  prompt  reply, 
to  have  been  early  in  1529.  *That  dyspytuose  and  dyspyteful  person/ 
which  of  late  vnder  pretexte  of  -pyte/  made  and  put  forth  among  you/  a 
boke  that  he  namyd  the  supplycacyon  for  the  beggars/'  fol.  i.  Fox  states 
that  Fyshe's  Invective  was  'throwen  and  scattered  at  the  procession  in 
Westminster  upon  Candlemas  day,  before  the  king,'  and  that  Wolsey 
caused  his  servants  /diligently  to  attende  to  gather  them  up  that  they 
should  not  come  into  the  kinges  handes.'    pp.  445-9.  Ed.  1563. 


THE  LANDING  AND  DISTRIBUTION  IN  ENGLAND,        43 

Fyshe  may  have  gone  abroad  as  soon  as  the  persecution  of  1528  arose,, 
and  there  printed  his-  Sufpiicacyo/i,  which  is  a  small  eight-paged  tract, 
now  excessively  scarce.  Anyhow  he  was  soon  back  again  in  London  : 
where  he  died  in  1530. 

7.  But  the  most  precise  evidence  as  to  the  Distribution  is  to  be  found  in 
the  confession  of  Robert  Necton,  made  apparently  at  London  in  1528. 
It  is  reprinted  by  Strype  from  the  Registries  of  the  Bishop  of  London. 
There  is  no  date,  but  it  was  certainly  made  about  ihe  middle  of  that 
year.  Necton  distinctly  refers  to  this  Quarto  edition  as  *of  the  great 
volume,'  '  of  the  biggest ' :  to  the  Octavo  edition  as  *  of  the  smal  volume ' : 
and  to  the  first  surreptitious  edition,  printed  by  Christopher  Endhoven  at 
Antwerp  in  the  autumn  of  1526,  in  the  edition  that  was  offered  to  him 
about  Christmas  1527,  by  the  'Duche'  /.  e.  German  man.  He  also  gives 
us  infonnation  as  to  the  prices  at  which  the  Testaments  were  sold. 

jE  bowght  at  sondry  tymis  of  Mr  Fyshe  dwellyng  by  the  Whight  Frears  in  London,  many  of  the 
New  Testaments  in  English  ;  that  is  to  say,  now  v.  and  now  x.  And  sometyme  mo,  and  some- 
tyme  less,  to  the  nombre  of  xx.  or  xxx.  in  the  gret  volume.  The  which  New  Testaments  the 
said  Mr  Fyshe  had  of  one  Harmond,  an  English  man,  beyng  beyond  see.  But  how  many  he  had  this 
respondent  cannot  tell.  And  this  respondent  saith,  that  about  a  yere  and  half  agon  he  fell  in  a  quain- 
taunce  with  Vicar  Constantyne  here  in  London.  Which  shewed  this  respondent  first,  that  the  said  Mr 
Fyshe  had  New  Testaments  to  sell  ;  and  caused  this  respondent  to  by  some  of  the  said  New  Testaments 
of  Mr  Fyshe.  And  the  said  Mr  Fyshe,  at  the  desire  and  instance  of  Vicar  Constantine,  browghte  the  said 
New  Testaments  home-  to  this  respondents  house.  And  before  that  Vicar  Constantine  caused  this  respond- 
ent to  by  some  of  the  said  New  Testaments,  he  had  none,  nor  no  other  books,  except  the  chapiters  of 
Matthew.  1 

And  moreover,  this  respondent  saith,  that  about  the  same  tyme  he  sold  fyve  of  the  said  New  Testa- 
ments to  Sir  William  Furboshore  synging  man,  in  Stowmarket  in'SufTolk,  for  vii.  or  viii.  grotes  a  pece 
[is.  ^d.  or  2s.  8d.  equal  to  £i  iss.  od,  or  £,^  os.  od.  now].  Also,  two  of  the  same  New  Testaments  in 
Bury  St  Edmonds :  that  is  to  say,  to  Raynold  Wodelesse  one ;  and  lliomas  Horfan  another,  for  the  same 
price. 

Also,  he  saith,  that  about  Cristmas  last,  he  sold  one  New  Testament  to  a  Priste  ;  whose  name  he  cannot 
tell,  dwellyng  at  Pycknam  Wade  in  Northfolke ;  and  two  Latin  books  the  one  Oeconomia  Christiana ;  •  and 
the  other  Unio  Dtssidentium*  Also,  one  Testament  to  William  Gibson  merchaimt  man,  of  the  parish  of 
S.  Magaret  Patens. 

Also,  Vicar  Constantyne  at  dyvers  tymes  had  of  this  respondent  about  a  xv.  or  xvi.  of  the  New 
Testaments  of  the  biggest.     And   this  respondent  saith,  that  the  sayd  Vicar  Constantyne  dyvers  tymes 

'  Evidently  Tyndale's  first  publication.  we  are  delivered  from  sin,  and  concerning  infant 

•  This  book  has  defied  my  research.     All  I  can  baptism.    (4)  Concerning  predestination,  vocation, 

le.am  of  it  js  its  fuller  title,  Economica  Christiana  justification,  and  glorification.     (5)  Concerning  the 

rem  chrisiiauam  instituens.  double  law,  i.e.  the  natural  law  and  the  positive 

'A   Protestant  work  by  the  '  venerable '  Doctor,  law.    (6)  The  works  of  the  law.      (7)  Of  judicial 

Herman  Bodius.     Of  the  Latin  editions  of  separate  law  ancl   the   secular  sword.      (3)    Of  grace  and 

parts,  separately  issued  one  after  the  other,  before  merit.    (9)  Of  faith  and  its  works. 

1527,  I  have  been'  unable  to  see  a  copy  ;  but  have  The  second  part  treats  (10)  Of  the  sufficiency  of 

inspected  a  French  edition,  L' union  de  toute  dis-  the  word  of  God.      (11)   Of  penitence   and    the 

corde,  printed  by  Martin  Empercur  at  Antwerp  in  three    modes    of   confession.      (la'    Of  brotherly 

1532.     It  is  a  collection   of  passages  of  Scripture  rebuke.     (13)  Of  abstinence  and  fasting.     (14)  Of 

and  of  extracts  from  17  of  the  early  Fathers  ;  and  prayer.     {15)  Of  the  labour  of  the  hands.       iC)  Of 

has    for    its   motto    Spes   mea   lesus.      The   first  pardons  and  indulgences.    (17)  ()f  th< 

treats  of  ( i)  Adam's  transgression  and  original  sin.  of  the    Body  and    B!ood   of  Christ.     ( 

(2)  All  men  are  dinners  through  Adam.    (3)  How  order  of  the  ecclesiastical  constitution.       .   ,   -  ..... 

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44         THE  LANDING  AND  DISTRIBUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 

bowght  of  him  certayne  of  the  sayd  New  Testaments  ;  and  this  respondent  lykewise,  of  hym.  Also,  he 
sold  Sir  Richard  Bayfell  two  New  Testaments  unbound,  about  Cristmas  last ;  for  the  which  he  payd 
iii^  \\\\d.  [£2  los,  od.'i 

Farthermore,  he  saith,  that  he  hath  sold  v.  or  vi.  of  the  said  N.  Testaments  to  diverse  persons  of  the 
cite  of  London,  whose  namys,  or  dwellyng  places,  he  doth  not  remember. 

Moreover,  he  saith,  that  since  Easter  last,  he  bowght  of  Geffray  [Lolme]  Usher  of  Saynct  Antonyes,  with 
whom  he  hath  byn  aqueynted  by  the  space  of  a  yere,  or  therabout  (by  reason  he  was  Mr  Formar>,  the 
person  of  Hony  Lane  his  servant,  and  for  that  this  respondent  did  moche  resort  to  the  said  persons  ser- 
mons) XVIII.  N.  Testaments  in  English  of  the  smal  volume,  and  xxvi.  books,  al  of  one  sort,  caMcdOecona- 
vtici  Christiana  in  Latin  ;  and  two  other  books  in  Latin,  called  Uftio  Dissidentiuin.  For  which  he 
payed  hym  xl  i'.  [;^3o.]     Of  the  which  Oeconomia  Christiana  Vicar  Constantyne  had  xiii.  at  one  tyme. 

And  of  which  N.  Testaments  since  Easter  this  respondent  caryed  xv.  of  them,  and  the  other  xxiii. 
Oecofiomia  Christiana,  to  Lynne,  to  sell.     Which  he  wold  have  sold  to  a  young  man,  called   William 

merchant  man,  dwellyng  by  one  Mr.  Burde  of  the  same  towne.      Which  young  man  wold 

not  medle  with  them,  because  they  were  prohibite.  And  so  this  respondent  left  the  said  books  at  Lynne 
with  the  said  William,  untyll  his  retornyng  thider  ayen.  And  so  the  said  bookes  do  remayne  ther  still, 
as  yet.  And  two  of  the  said  N.  Testaments  he  hath  in  his  own  custodie,  with  another  of  the  great 
volume.  Also,  another  Testament  of  the  smal  volume  he  sold  since  Easter  to  young  Elderton,  merchant 
man,  of  Saynct  Mary  Hill  parishe. 

Howbeit  he  saith,  that  he  knew  not  that  any  of  thies  bookes  were  of  L,uthers  sect. 

To  the  xviiith  [/  e.  article  of  the  Indictment],  That  he  hath  byn  a  receptor,  he  saith,  that  he  twice  or 
thryese  hath  byn  in  Thomas  Mathews  house  of  Colchestre.  Wheras  he  hath  red  diverse  tymes  in  the 
N.  Testament  in  English,  before  the  said  Thomas  Matthew,  his  wife,  William  Dykes,  and  other  servantes 
ther.  And  there,  and  then  have  herd  old  Father  Hacker  speke  of  prophesies  ;  and  have  had  communi- 
cations of  diverse  articles  ;    which  he  doth  not  now  remember. 

To  the  xixth,  so  begynnyng.  That  he  iven-t  about  to  by  a  great  nombre  of  N.  Testaments,  he  saith,  that 
about  Cristmas  last,  there  came  a  Duche  man,  beyng  now  in  the  Flete,  which  wold  have  sold  this  re- 
spondent, ii  or  iii  hundreth  of  the  said  N.  Testaments  in  English  :  which  this  respondent  did  not  by  ;  but 
sent  him  to  Mr  Fj'she  to  by  them  :  and  said  to  the  Duche  man.  Look  what  Mr  Fyshe  doth,  I  wil  do  the 
same.  But  whether  Mr  Fyshe  bowght  any  of  them,  he  cannot  tell :  for  which  iii.  hundreth  he  shold 
have  paid  xvi/.  v^-^.,  after  ix^.  a  pece.  [;^3oo  at  gd.  would  amount  to  £\x  $s.  od.  :  representing  ii.f.  3^. 
and  ;£i68  15J'.  od.  now.    The  price  offered  was  evidently  put  at  the  very  lowest.] 

To  the  XX.  article,  That  he  is  injramed ;  he  saith,  that  since  Easter  last,  he  was  at  Norwiche  at  his 
brothers  house,  wher  as  one  had  complayned  of  this  respondent  to  my  Lord  of  Norwiche,  because  he  had 
a  N.  Testament.  Wherfor  his  brother  counceled  this  respondent  to  send  or  delyver  his  said  N.  Testa- 
ment :  and  said  to  him.  If  he  wold  not  delyver  it,  my  Lord  of  Norwiche  would  send  him  to  my  Lord  of 
London,  his  Ordinary.    And  so  afterwards  he  sent  it  to  London  by  the  caryer. 

To  the  XXI.  article,  so  begynnyng,  T/iat  contrary  to  the  prohibition,  he  hath  kept  the  New  Testament, 
he  confessith,  that  after  he  had  knowledge  of  the  condempnation  of  the  said  N.  Testament,  by  the  space 
of  a  yere,  or  more,  he  hath  had  in  his  custodie,  kept,  and  studyed  the  same  Testament,  and  have  red  it 
thoroughly  many  tymes.  And  also  have  red  in  it  as  wel  within  the  citie  and  diocess  of  London,  as 
within  the  citie  and  diocesse  of  Norwiche.  And  not  onely  red  it  to  himself,  but  redd  and  tawght  it  to 
diverse  other. 

To  the  XXII.  he  answeryth  and  denyeth,  that  he  had  Wycliefs  Wycket  or  the  Apocalips  at  any  tyme. 
J.  Strype,  Eccles.  Mem.  \.  Part  11.  pp.  63-5.  Ed.  1822.  ^^'  "^^  ^^^'^^'^  Necton.i 


all  the  faithful  are  priests,  kings,   and  prophets ;  Gregory,    Hilarius,    Jerome,    Lactantius,    Origen, 

but  all  are  not  ministers  of  the  church.     (20)  Of  Tertullian,  Theophylactus.   This  work  was  of  great 

the    honour   due   to   saints.  _    (21)    Of   the   burial  value  in  proving  that  the  doctrine  of  the  Reformers 

of  the  dead.     (22)    Of  Antichrist.     (23)    Of    the  agreed  with  that  of  the  Fathers  and  of  Scripture, 

flight  and  per.secutions  of  Christians.     (24)  Of  the  ^  The    general  tenour  of  the  confession   would 

essence    of   divinity.      The    Fathers    quoted    are  seem  to  show   that  Necton  was  answering  three 

Ambrose,  Athanasius,  Augustine,  Bede,  Bernard,  general  charges  ;  as  to  the  Quarto,  then  as  to  the 

Chrysostom,  Clemens,  Cyprian,  Cyril,  Fiilgentius,  Octavo,  then  as  to  the  Antwerp  impression. 


Tim  LANDING  AND  DISTRIBUTION  IN  ENGLAND,        45 

NectOD;  whose  brother  was  Sheriff  of  Norwich  in  1530,  and  who  him- 
self appears  to  liave  been  of  good  position,  does  not  seem  to  have 
carried  on  this  hazardous  work  of  coli)ortage  for  the  sake  of  money  ;  but 
to  have  sold  the  Testaments  approximately  at  cost  price,  viz.  at  about 
two  shillings  or  two  shillings  and  sixpence  each,  bound  [equal  to 
;£\  10s.  od.  to  ;£i  lys.  dd,  each]. 

If  three  thousand  copies  were  struck  off  of  each  edition  by  Tyndale's 
printers  ;  the  amount  invested  by  the  English  merchants,  who  supported 
him  in  the  two  impressions,  at  two  shillings  each  copy,  was  ;^6oo,  repre- 
senting p^9,ooo  of  the  present  day.  It  would  seem  also  from  the  above, 
that  the  Octavo  copies  were  cheaper  than  those  in  Quarto  :  but  Necton's 
deposition  is  not  sufficiently  clear  to  determine  by  how  much. 

8.  Respecting  Constantine  ^  and  Necton,  there  is  the  following  later  in- 
formation in  Sir  Thomas  More's  Cojifutacyon  of  Tyndales  Answer e^  1532  : 
with  which  we  must  here  dismiss  them. 

As  George  Constantync  ere  he  escaped,  was  redy  to  haue  in  worde  at  the  leste  wyse  abiured  all  that 
holy  doctryne  \_More  is  speaking derisively\\  what  his  herte  was  god  and  he  know,  and  pcraducnture  the 
deuyll  to  yf  he  entended  otherwyse.  But  surely  there  was  entended  toward  hym  somwhat  more  good, 
then  his  dealyngc  had  byfore  deserued.  And  so  mych  the  more  fauour  was  there  mynded  hym,  in  that  he 
semed  very  penytent  of  his  mysse  vsynge  of  hym  selfe,  in  fallynge  to  Tyndales  heresyes  agayne.  For  whychc 
he  knowledged  hym  selfe  worthy  to  be  hanged,  that  he  haddc  so  falsely  abused  the  kyngcs  graciouse  rcmis- 
syon  and  pardon  geuen  hym  byfore  /  and  hadde  for  all  that  in  the  whylc  both  bought  and  solde  of  those 
heretycall  bokes,  and  secretely  set  forth  those  heresyes.  Wherof  he  shewed  hym  selfe  so  repentaunt,  that 
he  vttered  and  dysclosed  dyuers  of  hys  companyons,  of  whom  there  are  some  abiured  synnys,  that  he 
wyste  well  were  abiured  before,  namely  Rycharde  Necton  whyche  was  by  Constantynes  deteccyon  taken 
and  commytted  to  Newgate  /  where  except  he  happe  to  dye  before  in  pryson,  he  standeth  in  grete  paryll 
to  be  ere  it  be  longe,  for  hys  fallynge  agayne  to  Tindales  heresyes  burned 

How  be  it  Necton  now  syth  he  was  taken  sayed  that  hys  wyfe  had  burned  them.  But  it  is  well  knowen 
that  Necton  had  hym  selfe  and  a  man  of  hys  also,  solde  many  such  bokes  of  heresye,  bothe  in  London 
and  in  other  shyres  syth  his  abiuracyon Cc.i. 

How  be  it  as  for  Constantyne  as  I  sayd  before,  semed  in  pryson  here  very  penytent,  and  vtterly  mjTided 
to  forsake  such  heresyes  and  heretykes  for  euer.  In  profe  wherof  he  not  onely  detected  as  I  sayd  hysowne 
dedes  and  his  felowes,  but  also  studyed  and  deuysed  how  those  deuelysshe  bookes  whyche  hym  selfe  and 
other  of  hys  felowes  hadde  brought  and  shypped,  myghte  come  to  the  bysshoppes  handcs  to  be  burned.  And 

'  The  following  somewhat  incorrect  account  of  abroad  in  order  to  escape  punishment  for  heresy, 

this  man  may  be  preserved  in  a  note.  It  seems  however  that  sii  Thoinas  More  set  him  in 

George  Constantine,  bom  about  1504,  received  the  stocks,  and  that  he  made  his  escape  and  went 

his  education   in  Cambridge   university,  and  was  again  to  Antwerji.    He  was  residing  in  Wales  1539. 

bachelor  of  oinon  law  1524.    Adopting  Protestant  About  15^6  he  became  registrar  of  the  diocese  of 

opinions  he  went  to   Antwerp,  where  he  assisted  St.  David  s,  and  in  1549  archdeacon  of  Carmarthen. 

Tyndale  and  Joye  in  the  translation  of  the  New  He    was  one  of  the  principal  accusers  of  Ferrar 

Testament,  and  the   compilation  of  various  books  bishop  of  St.  David's,  but  before  the  death  of  that 

exposing    the    corruptions    of    the    church    and  prelate  was  reconciled  to  him.     In  1559  he  became 

the  superstition   of   the   age.     Whilst  in  Brabant  archdeacon  of  Brecon,  which  office  w.-»s  vacn;-' *'- 

he    practiaed    for    a  year  as  a   surgeon.      AlKJUt  same  year  by  his  death.     It  appears  thai 

1530  he    was  seized  on  a  visit  he   made  to  Eng-  married,  and  had  a  daughter  who  was  the  . 

land    for    the    dispersion    of    prohibited     books.  Thomas  Young,  afterwards  bishop  of  St.  David  s 

He  was  examined   by  sir  Thomas   More,   and  is  and  ultimately  archbishop  of  York.     C.    H.  and 

said  to  have  made  disclosures  as  to  his  associates  T.  Cooper,  Ath.  Cantab.  /'.  305,  EJ.  i8?8. 


46     •    THE  LANDING  AND  DISTRIBUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 

therfore  he  shewed  me  the  shypmannes  name  that  had  them,  and  the  markes  of  the  ferdellys,  by  whych  I 
haue  synnys  hj^  escape  receyued  them.  And  it  maye  be  by  goddes  grace,  that  though  the  man  fled  hense 
for  feare  of  suche  harme  as  he  wyste  he  had  well  deserued/  and  yet  was  nothynge  towarde  hym,  but  per- 
aduenture  more  good  then  he  was  ware  of :  he  is  yet  amended  in  hys  mynde  and  hath  in  hys  harte  forsaken 
all  Tyndales  heresyes,  and  so  I  pray  god  it  be/  for  I  wold  be  sory  yat  euer  Tyndale  sholde  glory  and 
boste  of  hys  burnynge.  How  be  it  in  the  meane  whyle,  tyll  it  may  -wfell  appere  that  he  be  surely  turned 
to  the  catholyke  fayth  agayne,  I  wil  aduyse  all  good  ci-ysten  folke  and  specyally  the  kynges  subiectes,  to 
forbere  and  estyew  [eschuewe]  hys  company.  For  j'at  englyshe  man  which  shall  be  founden  to  be  famylyarf 
wyth  hym  there,  before  his  conuersyon  here  knowen  and  proued,  maye  therby  brynge  hym  selfe  in  suspycyon 
of  heresye,  and  happely  here  thereof  at  hys  retournynge  hyther.     Cc.  ii. 

9.  It  is  with  regret  that  we  cannot  enter  here  into  the  story  of  Robert 
Barnes,  D.D.,  the  Augustine  monk  of  Cambridge  ;  of  his  Sermon  on 
Christmas  Eve,  24  Dec.  1525,  and  the  consequent  trouble  that  came  to  him 
through  it  until  it  climaxed  in  that  'gorgeous  fasyng  with  myters,  and  cros- 
staues,  abbots  and  pryours,'  with  Wolsey  enthroned  at  their  head,  at  St. 
Paul's  on  Sunday  11  Feb.  1526.  There  Barnes  was  put  to  open  penance 
and  thence  returned  to  the  Fleet,  where  he  remained  about  six  months. 
After  which  he  was  a  free  prisoner  at  the  Augustine  Friary  in  London, 
where  we  have  the  following  pictures  of  him,  actively  engaged  in  the  distri- 
bution of  the  printed  New  Testaments. 

John  Tyball  of  Steeple  Bumsted,  on  28  April  1528,  deposed  as  follows. 

Furthermore,  he  saythe,  that  at  Mychaelmasse  last  past  was  twelve  monethe  this  respondent  and  Thomas 
Hilles  came  to  London  to  Frear  Barons,  then  being  at  the  Freers  Augustines  in  London,  to  buy  a  New 
Testament  in  Englishe,  as  he  saythe.  And  they  found  the  sayd  Freer  Barons  in  his  chamber ;  wheras  there 
was  a  merchant  man,  reading  in  a  boke,  and  ii.  or  iii.  more  present.  And  when  they  came  in,  the  Frear 
demawnded  them,  from  whence  they  cam.  And  they  said,  from  Bumstede  ;  and  so  forth  in  communication 
they  desyred  the  sayd  Freer  Barons,  that  th[e]y  myght  be  aquaynted  with  hym ;  because  they  had  herd  that 
he  was  a  good  man  ;  and  bj'cause  they  wold  have  his  cownsel  in  the  New  Testament,  which  they  desyred  to 
have  of  hym.  And  he  saithe,  that  the  sayd  Frear  Barons  did  perseve  vei^  well,  that  Thomas  Hilles  and 
»his  respondent  were  infected  with  opinions,  bycause  they  wold  have  the  New  Testament.  And  then  farther 
they  shewyed  the  sayd  Frear,  that  one  Sir  Richard  Fox  Curate  of  Bumstede,  by  ther  means,  was  wel  entred 
in  ther  lernyng  ;  and  sayd,  that  they  thowghte  to  gett  hym  hole  in  shorte  space.  Wherfore  they  desyrj'd 
the  sayd  Frear  Barons  to  make  a  letter  to  hym,  that  he  wold  continew  in  that  he  had  begon.  Which  Frear 
did  promyse  so  to  wryte  to  hym  a  letter  at  afternoone,  and  to  gete  them  a  New  Testament.  And  then  after 
that  communication,  the  sayd  Thomas  Hilles  and  this  respondent  shewyd  the  Frear  Barons  of  certayne  old 
bookes  that  they  had  :  as  of  iiii.  Evangelistes,  and  certayne  Epistles  of  Peter  and  Poule  in  Englishe. 
Which  bookes  the  sayd  Frear  dyd  little  regard,  and  made  a  twyte  of  it,  and  sayd,  A  poynt  for  them,  for 
they  be  not  to  be  regarded  toward  the  new  printed  Testament  in  Englishe.  For  it  is  of  more  cleyner 
Englishe.  And  then  the  sayd  Frear  Barons  delyverid  to  them  the  sayd  New  Testament  in 
Englyshe  :  for  which  they  payd  iiij  \\d  \_£\  \is.  6d.]  and  desyred  them,  that  they  wold  kepe  yt  close.  For 
he  wolde  be  loth  that  it  shold  be  knowen,  as  he  now  remembreth.  And  after  thedelyverance  of  the  sayd  New 
Testament  to  them,  the  Frear  Barons  dyd  lyken  the  New  Testament  in  Latyn  to  a  cyTnball  tynkklyng,  and 
brasse  sowndyng.  But  what  farther  exposytion  he  made  uppon  it,  he  cannot  tell.  And  then  at  afternone 
they  fett  the  sayd  letter  of  the  sayd  Frear,  which  he  wrote  to  Sir  Richard  :  and  red  that  openly  before 
them,  but  he  dolh  not  now  remember  what  was  in  the  same.  And  so  dcpartyd  from  hym  ;  and  did  never 
since  speke  with  hym,  or  write  to  hym,  as  he  saithe.  Also,  he  saithe,  that  abowgh  a  half  j^ar  agone,  he 
delyverid  the  sayd  New  Testament  to  Frear  Gardyner  :  which  he  never  had  ageyne. 
J.  Stkype.  Eccles,  Mem.  I.  Part  ii., pp.  54-5.    Ed.  1822. 

Harl  MSS.  42i,/<?/.  35,  contains  what  is  without  doubt  the  correspond- 


7'//E  LANDING  AND  DISTRIBUTION  IN  ENGLAND.  <^Qs         v^-v' 

ing  deposition   of  T.   Hilles,  servant  of  Christopher  Raven  a  tailor  ot^^^^ 
Wytham.     It  runs  thus  :  ' — 

Also  he  saithe  that  abowt  whytsontyde  was  twelf  moneth  he  came  to  london  with  lohn  Tyhall  and 
speke  with  frenr  barons  at  frears  Augustyns  in  his  chambre  and  the  said  lohn  I'yball  told  the  said  frear 
bar^s  that  they  came  from  Cantebrige  to  by  some  of  the  new  testaments.  And  in  his  chambre  they 
fownde  a  youn;:;  gentleman  whom  he  did  not  know  hauyng  a  chayne  about  his  neck,  to  whom  the  said 
frear  did  rede  in  the  newe  testament  and  this  respondent  taryed  still  in  his  chambre  and  herd  hym  rede  a 
chapitour  of  powle  as  he  remembrith  and  after  that  done  I.  Tyball  moued  the  said  frear  barons  of  sir 
Richard  Ffox  and  shewed  that  sir  Richard  was  well  lemed  and  rekened  that  he  wold  do  well  wherfore 
he  desjTcd  frear  barons  that  he  wold  wryte  a  louyng  letter  to  the  said  sir  Richard  which  frere  barons 
so  wrote  a  letter  to  the  said  sir  Richard  which  letter  after  he  had  wryten  it  he  did  rede  it  to  this  re- 
spondent and  lohn  Tyball,  howbe  it  he  doth  not  now  remembre  what  was  contcyned  in  it  and  dclyucred 
to  Tyball.  And  afterward  eche  of  them  bowght  a  nfw  testament  in  Englishe  of  hem  and  paid  iijs  [£3 
55.  ck/.]  for  a  pece,  which  he  kept  after  that  it  was  forboyden  [?  Sept.  or  Oct.  1526]  vntyll  the  sondaj 
before  m'yd  lent  last  past  [8  March  1528].  In  which  new  testament -he  red  in  Roger  a  Tanner  house  of 
bres  GyfTord,  bower  hall,  mother  Bochcrs  and  mother  Chartes,  and  at  last  sold  the  said  new  testament  to 
sir  Richard  Ffox. 

10.  Of  the  labours  of  Geoffrav  Lolme,  Stephen  Forman,  S.T.P.,  and 
other  suspected  Distributors,  not  much  detailed  information  has  come 
do\vn  to  us. 

n.  These  Testament-Circulators  deserve  to  be  held  in  perpetual  honour. 
They  were  anti-Papists  before  the  Testaments  arrived  in  this  country.  They 
instinctively  saw  in  them  the  great  instruments  of  deliverance  of  the 
people  from  priestly  thraldom  that  weighed  so  heavily  upon  them  :  and  at 
the  hazard  of  all  their  worldly  health  and  wealth,  they  devoted  themselves 
to  the  dangerous  work  of  their  distribution  far  and  wide. 

12.  It  may  be  interesting  to  close  this  section  with  the  records  of  the 
earliest  possession  of  the  printed  New  Testaments  in  England,  viz.  in 
March  and  April  1526,  as  yet  known. 

John  Pykas,  a  baker  of  Colchester,  confessed  on  7  March  1528  : — 

That  about  a  v  years  last  past  at  a  certayne  tyme  his  mother  then  dwellyng  in  Kury  sent  for  hym  and 
mouyd  hym  that  he  shuld  not  beleve  in  the  sacraments  of  the  church  for  that  was  not  the  r>'ght  way. 
And  then  she  delyvered  to  this  respondent.  on[e]  booke  of  powles  Epistoles  in  Englyshe  and  bide  hym  lyve 
after  the  maner  and  way  of  the  said  epistoles  and  gospclls  and  not  after  the  way  that  tlie  church  doth 
teche.  Also  about  a  ij  yere  last  past  he  bowght  in  Colche'^ter  of  a  lumbard  of  london  a  new  testament  m  . 
Englisheand  paid  for  it  iiijf  [£3]  which  new  testament  he  kept  by  the  space  of  iiij  yeres  [?  months]  and  red 
it  thorowghly  many  tymes.  And  afterward  when  he  hard  that  the  said  new  testament  was  forboden  that 
no  man  should  kepe  them,  he  delyvered  it  and  the  book  of  powles  Epistoles  to  his  mother  aycn.  f/ar/. 
MSS.  ^ii./ol.  17. 

John  Tyball  of  Steeple  Bumsted,  already  quoted,  confessed  on  28  April 
1528:— 

Furthermore,  he  saythe,  that  abowght  ii  yeres  agon  he  companyed  with  Sir  Richard  Foxe  Curate  of 
Bumstede,  and  shewid  hym  al  his  bookys  that  he  had  ;  that  is  to  say,  the  NewTcstamente  in  Englishc,  the 
Gospel  of  Matthew  and  Mark  in  Englishe  ;  which  he  had  of  John  Pykas  of  Colchester  ;  and  a  book  ex- 
poundyng  the  Pater  Noster,  the  Ave  Maria,  and  the  Credo  ;  certain  of  Powles  Epistoles  in  Englishe,  after 
th[e]  old  translation  ;  the  iiii  Evangelists  in  Englishe. 
J.  Strype.  EccUs.  Mem.  I.  Part  n.,  //.  52-3.    Ed.  1822. 


48  THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND, 

VI.    The  Persectttion  in  England. 

The  hunting  down  of  the  Book  (and  it  is  with  that  chiefly  that  we  have 
to  do)  preceded  the  punishment  of  its  readers. 

t»  Our  earhest  printed  information  of  the  very  first  action  of  Cardinal 
Wolsey  and  the  Bishops  respecting  the  destruction  of  the  printed  New 
Testaments  comes  to  us  in  the  name  of  the  King  himself 

Luther,  on  ist  Sept.  1525,  wTOte  his  second  letter  to  Henry  VIII.;  but 
with  bad  taste  published  it  before  the  King  himself  received  it,  which  was 
not  till  the  20th  of  March,  1526.  Some  time  afterwards  Henry  printed 
his  answer,  with  Luther's  letter;  prefixing  to  both  a  short  preface  Pio 
lectori ;  all  three  in  Latin  :  in  a  small  book  entitled  Literarium,  .  .  . 
quihis  respondet  ad  quandam  epistolani  Ltitheri,  the  printing  of  which  was 
finished  by  R.  Pynson  on  the  2nd  of  December,  1526. 

Not  satisfied  w^ith  this,  Henry  subsequently  had  this  work  translated  into 
English  :  A  copy  of  the  letters  wherm  the  most  redouted  and  mighty  prince\ 
our  soiierayne  lorde  kyng  Henry  the  eight]  kyng  of  Engla?ide  and  of  Frauncej 
defensor  of  the  faith\  and  lorde  of  Irelande :  made  answer e  imto  a  certayne 
letter  of  Marty n  Luther j  sent  vnto  hym  by  -the  samej  and  also  a  copy  of  ye 
foresayd  Luther s  letter  j  in  suche  order]  as  here  after  followeth  :  which  was  also 
printed  by  Pynson,  without  date :  but  the  latest  date  assignable  to  it  cannot 
be  long  after  the  beginning  of  1527.  For  Jerome  doubtless  got  the 
account  he  gave  to  Roy  of  the  Episcopal  '  consistory,'  from  it. 

To  this  English  translation  tliere  was  added  in  the  King's  name  a  special 
preface  in  which  occurs  the  following  passage. 

For  we  doute  nat  but  it  is  well  knowen  to  you  all/  that  Martyn  Luther  late  a  frere  Augustynef  and  now 
ron  out  in  Apostacy  and  wedded/  hath  nat  onely  scraped  out  of  the  asshen/  and  kyndeled  agayne/  almost 
all  the  embres  of  those  olde  errours  and  heresyes/  that  euer  heretyke  helde  sythe  Christ  was  borne 
hytherto:  but  hath  also  added  some  so  poysoned  pointes  of  his  ownej  so  wretched,)  so  vyle[  so  detestable/ 
prouokynge  men  to  myschefe/  encoragyng  the  worlde  to  syn/  preachyng-  an  vnsaciat  lyberte/  to  alleden 
them  with  all/  and  finally/  so  farre  against  all  honesty/  vertue  and  reason/  that  neuer  was  there 
erst  any  heretyke/  so  farre  voyde  of  all  grace  and  wyt/  that  durst  for  shame  speke  them. 
We  therfore  seyng  these  heresyes  sprede  abrode/  and  inwardly  sorowynge  so  many  christen 
soules  to  ron  to  ruyne/  as  hath  done  in  other  regions/  by  the  occasyon  of  suche  pestylent 
errours/  entendyng  for  our  parte/  somwhat  to  set  hande  therto/  wrote  after  our  meane  lernyng/  a 
lytell  treatyse/  for  the  assertyon  and  probatyon  of  the  holy  sacramentes  :  In  whiche  we  reproued/ 
and  as  we  trust/  suffyciently  refuted  and  conuynced/  the  most  parte  of  the  detestable  heresies  of  the 
sayde  Luther/  contaygned  in  his  abhomynable  bokef  entytuledV^  Babilonica  Captiuitate.  For  angre 
and  furj'e  wherof]  vpon  two  yeres  after/  Luther  wrote  and  sent  oute  agaynst  vs  a  bokc/  nothyng  answeryng 
to  ye  mater/  but  all  reason  sette  asyde/  stuffed  vp  his  booke  with  only  furious  raylyng/  whiche  his  boke  we 
regardynge/  as  it  was  worthy/  contempned  and  nat  wolde  vouche  safe  any  thing  to  reply/  reputyng  our 
selfe  in  Christes  cause/  nat  to  good  with  a  ryght  meane  man  to  reason  or  contrary/  but  nothing  metely 
frutelesse  with  a  leude  Frere  to  rayle.  So  came  it  than  to  passe/  that  Luther  at  laste/  parceyuyng  wyse 
men  to  espye  hym/  lerned  men  to  leaue  hym/  good  men  to  abhorre  hym/  and  his  frantyke  fauourers  to  fall  to 
wracke|«the  nobles  and  honest  people  in  Almaygne/  beynge  taught  by  the  profe  of  his  vngratyous  prac- 
tyse/  moche  more  hurt  and  myschefe  to  folovve  theroff  than  euer  they  loked  .ifter/  deuysed  a  letter  to  vs/ 
written/  to  abuse  them  and  all  other  nations/  in  such  wyse/  as  ye  by  the  contentes  therof/  hereafter  shal  well 


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perceyue.  In  whiche  he  fayneth  himselfc  to  be  enformed/  that  we  be  tourncd  to  the  fauour  of  his  secte. 
And  with  many  flateryng  wordes/  he  laboreth  to  haue  vs  content  that  he  myght  be  bolde  to  write  to  vs  in 
the  mater/  and  cause  of  the  gospell :  And  thervpon  without  answere  had  from  vs/  nat  oneiy  publysshed  the 
same  letter  and  put  it  in  print/  of  purpose  that  his  adherentes  shulde  be  the  bolder/  vndcr  ye 
shadowe  of  our  fauour/  but  also  fell  in  deuyce  with  one  or  two  leude  persons/  borne  in  this  our  realmef 
for  the  translatyng  of  the  Newe  testament  in  to  Englysshe/  as  well  with  many  corruptions  of  that  holy 
text/  as  certayne  prefaces/  and  other  pestylcnte  gloses  in  the  margentes'  for  the  aduauncement  and  scttyng 
forthe  of  his  adbomynable  heresyes/  entendynge  to  abuse  the  gode  myndes  and  dcuotion/  that  you  oure 
derely  beloued  people  beare  towarde  the  holy  scrypture/  and  to  enfect  you  with  the  decdly  corruption  and 
contagious  -odour  of  his  pestylent  errours.  In  the  aduoydynge  wheroff  we  of  our  espedall  tcndre  zeale 
towardes  you/  haue  with  the  deliberate  aduyse  of  the  most  reuerende  father  in  god/  Thomas  lorde  Cardynalll 
legate  de  Latere  of  the  see  apostolyke/  Archebysshop  of  yorke/  primate  and  our  Chauncellour  of  this  realmrf 
and  other  reuerende  fathers  of  the  spyritualtye/  determyned  the  sayd  and  vntrue  translatyons  to  be  brennedj 
with  further  sharppe  correction  and  punisshment  against  the  kepars  and  reders  of  the  same/  rckenyng  of  your 
wisdomes  very  sure  that  ye  wyll  well  and  thankfully  jjarceyue  our  tendre  and  louyng  mynde  towarde  you 
therin/  and  that  ye  will  neuer  be  so  gredy  vppon  any  swete  wyne/  be  the  grape  neuer  so  plesaunt/  that  ye 

wyll  desyre  to  taste  it/  beyng  well  aduertised  yat  your  enemy  before  hath  poysoned  it 

^  We  therfore  our  well-beloued  people/  nat  wyllyng  you  by  such  subtell  meanes/  to  be  disceyued  or 
seduced/  haue  of  our  especiall  fauour  toward  you/  translated  for  you/  and  gyuen  out  vnto  you/  as  well 
his  said  letter  written  to  vs/  as  our  answere  also  made  vnto  the  same  :  By  the  sight  wherofy  jre  may 
partely  parceyue  bothe  what  the  man  is  in  hym  selfe/  and  of  what  sorte  is  his  doctrine. 

From  the  Bodleian  copy  of  this  excessively  rare  tract. 

There  was  then  indubitably  a  secret  delibefation  of  the  Cardinal  and  the 
Bishops  at  some  time  after  Tonstall's  arrival  home  in  April,  1526;  and,  as 
we  shall  immediately  see,  before  or  in  the  October  following. 

2.  One  of  the  first  results  of  this  concerted  action  was  the  sermon  at 
Paul's  Cross  by  Tonstall,  Bishop  of  London,  in  which  he  told  the  people 
that  there  were  three  thousand  errors  in  the  translation,  and  made  the  other 
statements  quoted  by  Roy,  see  pp.  30-31.  On  this  occasion  Tyndale's  New 
Testaments  were  first  officially  denounced,  and  publicly  burnt. 

Though  the  date  of  this  Sermon  and  Auto  da  fi  cannot  be  exactly 
recovered,  it  may  provisionally — until  demonstrative  proof  turns  up — be 
placed  in  September  or  October  of  that  year. 

A  confused  rumour  of  the  occurrence  reached  even  to  Rome ;  and  there 
is  extant  a  letter  of  Cardinal  Campeggio  to  Wolsey,  dated  Rome,  21 
November,  1526,  which  begins  with  the  following  passage — 

Non  possum  non  maxime  Isetari,  cum  quottidie  I  cannot  but  greatly  rejoice,  when  I  hear  dail> 
intelligam  a  serenissimo  et  potentissimo  Rege  from  our  most  serene  and  most  powerful  king,  that 
nostro  ope[ra]  et  diligentia  lUustrissimae  Domina-  by  your  most  illustrious  Lordship's  assistance  and 
tionis  vestrje,  aliquod  opus  gloriosum  et  salutare  diligence,  a  glorious  and  saving  work  is  being  car- 
pro  tuenda  rcligione  Christiana  in  isto  su[o]  regno  ried  on  in  his  kingdom  for  the  protection  of  the 
geri,  sicuti  nuper  cum  summa  eius  laude  et  gloria  Christian  religion;  as,  for  instance,  we  lately  heard, 
auditum  est,  Majestatem  suam  sacrum  B[ibli3e]  to  his  Majesty's  great  praise  and  glory,  that  he  had 
codicem,qui  ad  peruertendum  pias  fidelium  simpli-  most  justly  caused  to  be  burnt  a  copy  of  the  Holy 
cium  mentes  a  pcrfidis  abominandx  sectae  Lut[her-  Bible,  which  had  been  mistranslated  into  the  common 
anae]  sectatoribus  uemaculo  sermone  deprauatus,  tongue  by  the  faithless  followers  of  Luther's  abomin- 
et  ad  eius  regnum  delatus  fuerat,  iustissime  com-  able  sect,  to  pervert  the  pious  minds  of  simple 
bun  fedsse.    Quo  certe  nullum  gratius  onuiipotcnti  believers,  and  had  been  brought  into  bisj^ingdom. 

G 


so 


THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 


Deo  holocaustum  fieri  potuit.  Persistat  igitur 
Illustrissima  [Dominatio  vestra]  in  ea  in  qua  est 
specula,  et  pium  Christianissimumque  illud 
regnum  a  tarn  scelerata  et  peruersa  heresi,  (uti 
semper  fecit)  tueatur  atque  defendat,  Vt  Maximi 
Regis  nostri  proprium  decus  sit  Ch[ristianam] 
fidem  non  minus  felicissimis  armis  quam  diuino 
ingenio  summis  lucubrationibus  .  et  exacta  di- 
lige[ntia]  a  sceleratis  hostibus  protexisse  et  in 
tutiorem,  felicioremque  statum  redegisse.  Quod 
ego,  qui  eivi[s]  incomparabiles  uirtutes  optime  noui, 
omnibus  affirm o,  et  futurum  certissime  confido. — 
Cott.  MSS.  Vit.  B.  viii.  164. 


Assuredly  no  burnt  offering  could  be  more  pleasing 
to  Almighty  God. 

May  your  most  Illustrious  Lordship  long  continue 
on  your  present  vvatchtower,  and  protect  and  defend, 
as  you  have  always  done,  that  pious  and  most 
Christian  kingdom,  from  so  accursed  and  perverse 
a  heresy,  so  that  the  peculiar  glory  of  our  great 
king  may  be  to  have  protected  the  Christian  faith 
from  the  accursed  enemies,  not  less  by  successful 
war,  than  by  his  divine  talents,  great  studies,  and 
careful  diligence,  and  to  have  brought  the  faith  into 
a  safer  and  more  happy  state.  Of  this,  I,  who  well 
know  his  incomparable  virtues,  assure  every  one, 
and  I  most  assuredly  trust  that  it  will  be  so. 

Henry  may  have  himself,  as  a  symboHcal  and  official  act,  burnt  one  copy 
of  Tyndale's  translation  (for  no  English  Bible  existed  at  the  time  or  for 
long  after) ;  but  it  is  far  more  reasonable  to  take  the  Rumour  in  Rome  as 
originating  from  the  Burning  at  Paul's  Cross.  If  so,  allowing  a  month 
backwards  from  21  November  for  the  news  to  travel  to  the  Papal  Court, 
we  get  the  middle  of  October  as  the  approximate  date  of  Tonstall's  Sermon 
and  Bonfire. 

3,  This  seems  the  more  probable  :  inasmuch  as  without  doubt  that 
Sermon  and  its  attendant  Fire  were  only  a  part  of  a  general  scheme  of 
attack  on  the  Forbidden  Book :  and  it  was  on  the  24th  of  October,  1526, 
that  Tonstall  issued  the  following  injunction  to  his  four  Archdeacons  of 
London, ,  Middlesex,  Essex,  and  Colchester,  after  the  manner  of  the 
following  one. 


Cutbertus  permissione  diuina  Lond.  Episcopus 
dilecto  nobis  in  Christo  Archidiacono  nostro 
Londo.  seu  eius  officiali,  salutem  gratiam  et  bene- 
dictionem. 

Ex  pastoralis  officij  nostri  debito  ea  quae  ad  subiec- 
torum  nostrorum  periculum,  et  maxime  ad  interne- 
tionem  animarum  earundem  tendere  dinoscuntur, 
salubriter  propellere  et  totis  viribus  extirpare  as- 
tringimur.  Sane  ex  fide  dignorum  relatione  ipsaque 
rei  euidentia,  ad  nostram  iamdudum  peruenit  noti- 
ciam,  quod  nonnulli  iniquitatis  filij  ac  Lutheranae 
factionis  ministri  quos  summa  excaecauit  malicia,  a 
/ia  veritatis  et  orthodoxae  fidei  declinantes,  sanctum 
del  euangelium  in  vulgare  nostrum  Anglicanum 
subdola  ver&utia  transferentes  ac  nonnullos  haere- 
ticae  prauitatis  articulos  et  opiniones  erroneas  pemi- 
ciosas  pestiferas,  scandalosas  et  simplicium  mentium 
seductiuas  intermiscentes,  illibatam  hactenus  sacrae 
scripturae  maiestatem,  suis  nepharijs  et  tortuosis 
interpretationibus  prophanare,  et  verbo  domini  sa- 
crosancto  et  recto  sensu  eiusdem  callide  et  peruerse 
abuti  tentarint.     Cuius  quidem  translationis  non- 


TRANSLATION    BY  JOHN   FOX. 

Cutbert  by  the  permission  of  god,  byshop  of 
London,  vnto  our  wellbeloued  in  christ  the 
Archdeacon  of  London,  or  to  his  officiali,  helth 
grace  and  benediction. 

By  the  deuty  of  our  pastorall  office,  we  are 
bounde  diligently  with  all  our  power  to  forsee, 
prouide  for,  roote  out  and  put  away  all  those 
things,  which  seme  to  tende  to  the  perill  and 
daunger  of  our  subiectes  and  specialy  ye  distruc- 
tion  of  ther  soules,  wherfor  we  hauing  vnderstand- 
ing  by  ye  reporte  of  diuers  credible  persones,  and 
also  by  the  euident  apparaunce  of  the  matter,  that 
many  children  of  iniquitie  mainteiners  of  Luthers 
sect,  blinded  through  extreame  wickednes,  wandring 
from  the  way  of  truth  and  the  catholike  faith, 
craft[e]ly  haue  translated  the  new  testament  into 
our  English  tongue,  entermedling  therewith  many 
hereticall  articles  and  erronious  opinions,  pernicious 
and  offensiue,  seducing  ye  simple  people,  attempt- 
ing by  their  wicked  and  peruerse  interpretations 
to  prophanate  ye  maiestie  of  the  scripture,  whiche 
hetherto  hath  remayned  vndefiled,  and  craftely  to 


THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 


null!  libri  impress!  quidam  cum  glosis,  quidam  sine 
glo&is,  vt  accepimus,  dictum  pcstifcrum  ct  pemici- 
osum  virus  in  vulgari  idiomate  in  sc  continentes  in 
promiscuam  nostrarum  dioc.  et  iurisdictionis  Lond. 
multitudine  sunt  disi>ersi,  qui  sane  gregem  nobis 
commissum,  nisi  citius  prouideatur  tarn  pestifcro 
veneno  et  mortifero  prauitatis  hsercticac  morbo,  pro- 
culdubio  inficient  et  contaminabunt  in  animarum 
nobis  commissarum  graue  periculum  et  diuinae 
maiestatis  grauissimam  ofTensam. 

Vnde  nos  Cutbertus  episcopus  ante  dictus  de  pre- 
dictis  magnopere  dolentes  et  antiqui  hostis  calliditati 
ire,  quam  suis  satellitibus  ad  animarum  subditorum 
nostrorum  interemptionem  subministrat,  ob<iiam 
curaque  pastorali  super  grege  nobis  commisso 
diligenter  inuigilare  ac  remedia  opp>ortuna  praemissis 
adhibere  cupientes,  vobis  coiunctira  el  diuisim 
committimus  ac  firmiter  in  virtute  sanctx  obediendae 
qua  nobis  tenemini  iniungendo  mandamus,  quatenus 
autoritate  nostra  moneatis  monerive  facialis  omnes 
et  singulos  lam  exemptos  quam  non  exemptos, 
infra  vestrum  Archidiaconatum  vbi  libet  commo- 
rantes,  quatenus  infra  xxx.  dierum  spadum  quo- 
rum quidem  dierum  decem  pro  primo,  decem  pro 
secundo,  el  decem  pro  lertio  et  peremptcrio  termino 
sub  excommunicationis  poena  ac  criminis  haereseos 
suspicionis  incurrendae  eis  assignamus,  omnes  et 
singulos  huiusmodi  libros  translationem  noui  lesta- 
menti  in  vulgarem  linguam  factam  continent^  ad 
nos  seu  nostrum  in  spiritualibus  vicarium  generalem 
inferanl  el  realiter  iradant.  Et  quid  in  pra;missis 
feceritis  nos  aut  vicarium  nostrum  huiusmodi  infra 
duos  menses  a  die  dati  presentium  debite  cerlifi- 
care  personaliter  vel  per  literas  veslras  patentes 
vna  cum  praesentibus  autenlice  sigillalas  non  omit- 
talis  sub  poena  conlemptus. 

Dal.  sub  sigillo  nosiro  24.  die  mensis  Octobris  An. 
M.D.  26,  nostraecons.    An.  quinlo. 

Fox,  Actes,  &'c.,  p.  449.   \st  Ed.  1563. 


abuse  the  raoste  holy  word  of  God,  and  the  true 
sence  of  the  same,  of  the  whichc  transblion  there 
arc  many  bokes  imprinted,  some  with  gloses  and 
some  without,  conteining  in  the  cnglish  tongue 
that  pestiferous  and  moste  pernicious  poyson  dis- 
persed throughout  all  our  dioces  of  London  in 
great  nomber,  whiche  truely  without  it  be  spedely 
fursene  without  doubt  will  contaminate  and  infect 
the  flocke  committed  vnto  vs,  with  rooste  deadly 
poyson  and  heresy.  To  the  greuous  perill  and 
daunger  of  the  soules  committed  to  our  charge,  and 
the  offence  of  gods  diuine  maicstie. 

Wherfore  we  Cuthbert  the  byshop  aforesaid, 
greuously  sorowing  for  the  premisses,  willing  to 
withstande  the  craft  and  subteltie  of  the  auncient 
enemy  and  his  ministers,  which  seke  the  deslruc- 
ion  of  my  flock,  and  with  a  diligent  care  to  take 
heade  vnto  the  flock  committed  to  my  charge,  de- 
siring to  prouide  spedy  remedies  for  ye  premisses, 
we  charg[e]  you  ioinlly  and  seuerally,  and  by  virtue 
of  your  obedience,  straightly  enioyne  and  com- 
maund  you  that  by  our  autorj'tie  you  wame  or 
cause  to  be  warned,  all  and  singuler  aswell  exempte 
as  not  exempt,  dwelling  with  in  your  Archdecon[rieJs. 
that  with  in.  xxx.  dales  space,  whereof  ten  daies 
for  the  first,  x.  for  ihe  second  and.  x.  for  ye  third 
peremptory  terme,  vnder  pajTie  of  excommunica- 
tion, and  incurring  the  suspicion  of  heresie,  they 
do  bring  in  and  really  deliuer  vnto  our  vicau"  general, 
all  and  singuler  such  books  conteyning  the  trans- 
lation of  ye  new  testament  in  the  English  tongue, 
and  that  you  doo  certyfie  vs  or  our  said  commissary, 
within,  ii.  monthes,  after  ihc  day  of  the  date  of 
these  presents,  dewly,  personally  or  by  your  leters, 
together  with  these  presenles,  vnder  your  seales, 
what  you  haue  done  in  the  premisses,  vnder  paine  of 
contempt. 

Geuen  vnder  our  seale  the  xxKi[j].  of  October,  in 
the  V.  yeare  of  oure  consecration. 


'^tl'> 


i*.  A  further  presumption  of  a  previous  examination  of  the  Transla- 
tion, and  a  concerted  plan  respecting  it,  may  be  found  in  that  the  gravamen 
of  Archbishop  Warham's  Mandate  of  3  Nov.,  1526,  as  addressed  to  Voysey, 
Bishop  of  Exeter,  is  identical  with  that  of  Tonstall's  Injunction. 

Willielmus,  permissione  divina  Cant,  archiepiscopus,  etc.  vener.  confratri  nosiro  domino  Johanni,  Dei 
gratia  Exon.  episcopo,  vestrove  vicario  in  spiritualibus  generali,  salutem,  et  fratemam  in  Domino  charitatcm. 

Ex  pastoralis  officii  nostri  debito  ea,  quae  ad  subjectorum  nostrorum,  periculum  el  maximc  ad  inteme- 
donem  animarum  earundem  tendere  dignoscuntur,  salubriter  propellere,  et  totis  viribus  extirpare  astnn- 
gimur.  Sane  ex  fide  dignorum  relatione  ipsaque  rei  evidentia  ad  nostram  jamdudum  pervcnit  notitiam, 
quod  nonnuUi  iniquitatis  filii,  ac  Lutheranae  factionis  minislri,  quos  summa  excaccavit  malilia,  a  via 
veritaiis  el  orlhodoxse  fidei  declinantcs,  non  modo  sanctum  Dei  e\-angelium,  sed  etiam  rcliquam  Novi 
Testamcnti  partem  in  vulgare  nostrum  Anglicanum  subdola  versutia  transfcrenies,  ac  nonnulloshaereticae 
praviiatis  ar^iculos,  et  opiniones  erroneas,  pemiciosas,  pestiferas,  tcandalotat,  et  simplidum  aaentiuu 
seductivas  intromiscentes,  illibatam  baaenus  sacrae  scripturae  msgestatem,  sub  ncfarils  ct  tortuoais  inter- 

c,    2 


52  THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 

pretdtionibus  profanare,  et  verbo  Domini  sacrosancto,  et  recto  sensu  ejusdem  callide  et  perverse  abuti 
temptarunt.  Cujus  quidem  translationis  nonnulli  libri  impress!,  quidam  cum  glossis,  quidam  sine  glossis, 
ut  accepimus,  dictum  pestiferum  et  perniciosum  virus  in  vulgari  idiomate  in  se  continentes,  in  promiscuam 
vestrarum  dioec.  et  provinciae  Cant,  multitudinem  sunt  dispersi,  qui  sane  gregem  nobis  et  vobis  com- 
missum,  in  [ni  ijcitius  provideatur,  tarn  pestifero  veneno,  et  mortifero  pravitatis  haereticae  morbo  pro- 
culdubio  inficient,  et  contaminabunt,  in  animarum  nobis  et  vobis  commissarum  grave  periculum,  et  divinae 
majestatis  gravissimam  offensam. 

Unde  nos  Willielmus,  archiepiscopus  antedictus,  de  praedictis  magnopere  dolentes,  et  antiqui  hostis 
calliditate,  quam  suis  satellitibus,  ad  animarum  dictorum  nostrorum  subditorum  interemptionem  subminis- 
trat,  obviam  ire  volentes,  vos  hortamur  et  nihilominus  (quia  res  gravis  praejudiccii  agitur)  in  virtute 
sanctae  obedientiae  firmiter  injungendo  mandamus,  quatenus  cum  ea,  qua  decet,  celeri  diligentia  moneatis, 
monerive  faciatis  omnes  et  singulos,  tarn  exemptos  quam  non  exemptos,  infra  vestram  dioec.  ubilibet  com- 
morantes,  quatenus  infra  30.  dierum  spatium,  quorum  quidem  dierum  decern  pro  primo,  decem  pro 
secundo,  et  decem  pro  tertio  et  peremptorio  termino,  sub  excommunicationis  poena,  ac  criminis  haereseos 
suspicionis  incurrendo  eis  assignetur,  omnes  et  singulos  huiusmodi  libros,  translationem  Novi  Testamenti, 
vel  aliquam  ejus  particulam  in  vulgarem  linguam  factam  continentes,  ad  vos  seu  vestrum  in  spiritualibus 
vicarium  generalem  inferant,  et  realiter  tradant  per  vos  seu  vestram  auctoritatem  igni  committendos.  Et 
quid  inpraemissis  feceritis,  n9S  citra  ultimum  diem  mensis  lanuarii  prox.  post  datam  praesentium  per 
literas  vestras  patentes  auctentice  sigillatas,  numerum  librorum  hujusmodi  ad  manus  vestras  obtentu 
praefatae  monitionis  delatorum,  ac  per  vos,  ut,  praemittitur,  numeratorum  [incineratorum^]  in  se  continentes, 
una  cum  prsesentibus  debite  certificare  non  omittatis  sub  poena  contemptus. 

Dat.  in  manerio  nostro  de  Lamehith  tertio  die  mensis  Novembris,  anno  Dom.  M.  D.  xxvi,  et  nostras 
transl.  xxiii.    Wilkins  Concilia  Magnce  Britannice,  iii.  706.  Ed.  1737. 

5.  Then  probably  in  order  of  time  next  came  King  Henry's  Preface 
to  his  people,  about  the  beginning  of  1527  ;   quoted  above. 

6.  There  is  also  a  short  but  singularly  important  note  from  Dr.  Robert 
Ridley,  chaplain  to  Tonstall,  Bishop  of  London,  to  Henry  Golde,  nephew 
and  chaplain  to  Warham,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  which  possibly  gives 
the  title  of  this  Quarto  New  Testament.  The  date  is  only  24  February ; 
but  we  believe  from  the  absence  of  any  mention  of  the  later  Protestant 
literature  (Tyndale's  Parable  of  the  Wicked  Mammon  and  the  like)  and  the 
general  tenor  of  the  note,  that  the  year  is  without  any  doubt  1527. 

Robert  Ridley  to  Henry  Golde. 
Maister  Golde,  I  hartly  commande  me  vnto  you.  As  concernyng  this  common  and  vulgare  translation 
of  the  new  testament  in  to  englishe,  doon  by  Mr,  William  Hichyns,  otherwais  called  Mr.  W,  Tyndale,  and 
frear  William  Roy,  manifeste  lutheranes  heretikes  and  apostates,  as  doth  oppynly  apeir,  not  only  by  their 
daily  and  continuall  company  and  familiarite  with  Luther  and  his  disciples,  bot  mych  mor  by  their  com- 
mentares  and  annotationes  in  Mattheum  et  Marcum  in  the  first  print,*  also  by  their  preface  in  the  2d  prent,* 
and  by  their  introduccion  in  to  the  epistle  of  Paule  ad  Romanes*  al  to  gither  most  posoned  and  abhominable 
hereses  that  can  be  thowght ;  he  is  not  filius  Ecclesise  Christi  that  wold  receaue  a  godspell  of  such  damned  and 
precised  heretikes,  thowh  it  wer  trew,  lyk  as  Paule  and  our  Saviour  Crist  wold  not  take  the  trew  testimonial 
of  Evil  Spretes  that  prased  Criste  trew  saying  Qjiod  filius  dei  erat,^  et  quod  ipse  Paulus  servus  esset  vert 
Dei.^  As  for  errours  if  ye  haue  the  first  prent  with  annotationes  in  Mattheum  et  Marcum,  and  the  preface, ''al 

__ '  True  readings  in  the  copy  in  Voysey's  Register  *  Separate  publications  simultaneously  published. 

ii.  51.  at  Exeter.      See    Foxe's  Acts,  ?/c.,  iv.  764.  ' The  present  Quarto. 

Ed.  by  Rev.  S.  Townsend,  M.A.,  1846.  ♦An  aaaptatiou  by  Tyndale  of  Luther's  Preface, 

John   Voysey,    alias   Harman,    was    Bishop    of  translated  into  Latin'by  Justus  Jonas  in  1522. 

Exeter  between  31  Aug.,  1519,  and  14  Aug.,  1551.  ^Mark  iii.  11.   ^Actsxvi.  17.  ^  i.e.  The Prologge. 


THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND.  53 

is  mere  frcnesy,  he  saith  that  cuangelium  nihil  est  aliud  quam  dulcis  promissio  gratiae,'  so  that  by  that  meanes 
pcenitentiam  agite,  is  no  part  of  the  euangelion,  the  pater  noster  is  no  part  of  the  godspell,  ite  maledicti  in 
igncm  etemam,  no  part  of  the  euangelion  hot  only  such  appropitujuabit  rrgnum  caelorunt,*iHueHutU  rtquUm 
aHi>Mal>Ms  z'estris.*  Also  he  writ[eth]  in  that  preface  and  annotationes  that  there  is  no  difference  between 
virginite  and  an  hoor  of  the  stewes,  if  she  cum  to  repentaunce>  Also  that  lyk  as  no  man  doth  evil  to  the 
entent  that  he  show[d]  be  punyshed  or  hanged  therefor,  so  no  man  showd  do  good  to  haue  any  rewarde 
therefor,*  contra  <u/  facUndas  iustiJicatioHes  tuas  propter  retributionem^  et  ad  Hcbraws  de  Mose 
aspicitbat  enim  in  rvmuturatorem  alias  remuneratiotum^  et  illud,  facite  vobis  amicos  de  mammtrna,  ut 
cufK  defeceritis,  rfcipi-tnt  eos  in  oftema  tabemacMla.^  Also  that  by  good  warkes  we  do  no  thyng  merite,' 
contra  illud,  ad  Corinthos,  ut  referat  UKUsquisque  prout  gessit  siue  bonum,  siue  malum}^  et  illud 
genes(eos]  ad  Abraam,  quod  fecisti  hanc  rem  etc.^^  item  illud  ^Matthaei,  quod  sitivi  et  dedistis  miki 
Potum  <Sr»c."  et,  venite  benedict i  patris  mei.^  Also  he  saith  that  he  that  doth  any  thyng  to  haue  hy 
place  in  heven,  he  is  Satanice  et  Luciferine  superbus.*  I  haue  none  of  thies  bowkes  bot  only  I  remembre 
such  thj-nges  I  redde  in  the  prefaces  and  annotationes.  As  for  the  texte  of  the  godspell  first  the  title  is 
hereticall,  saying  that  it  is  prcnt  as  it  was  writen  by  the  euangelistes:'*  cum  neque  consentiat  cum  antiqua 
translatione  neque  cum  Erasmica  ;  this  is  the  bowk  of  generacion  of  iesus  the  sonne  of  Abraam  and  also 
the  Sonne  of  Dauid.i*  Cum  in  archetypo  sit  nominatus  absolutus,  et  in  illo,  filii  Abraam, /ilii  Dauid.^^&'c. 
fit  sensus,  ipse  unum  solum  affert  eumque  minus  germanum ;  voluit  clam  ab  ea  divertere}''  he  wold  haue 
putt  hir  away ;  in  quo  omnes peccaverunt^^  ad  Romanos,  in  so  mych  that  euery  man  hath  synned.  et  homo 
stultissime,  pcenitentiam  agite,^"*  repent*** —  By  this  translation  shall  we  losse  al  thies  cristian  wordes, 
penaunce,  charite,  confession,  grace,  prest,  chirche,  which  he  alway  calleth  a  congregation,  quasi 
turcharum  et  brutorum  nulla  esset  congregatio,  nisi  velit  illorum  etiam  esse  ecclesiam ;  Idololatria 
callith  he  worshippyng  of  images.  I  wold  that  ye  showd  haue  seen  my  lordes  bowkes.  As  for  the 
translation  in  Franche  withowt  any  p>ostille  it  is  for  certane  condemned  in  Parys  decreto  publico,*'  thow  it 
be  trewly  doon,  condemned  I  say,  that  it  shal  not  be  lawful!  to  publishe  it  to  euery  layman — bot  by  prests 
qncrum  labia  custodiunt  s[cientiam].''  and  so  it  was  in  the  old  law  and  in  the  tyme  of  the  apostles. 
Vide  Sutorem  de  translatione  biblia.^ 

I  certify  you  if  ye  look  well,  ye  shal  not  look  iij  lynes  withowt  fawt  in  al  the  bowk,  bot  I  haue  not  the 
bowk  to  marke  tham  owt,  ye  showld  haue  had  lasure  yourselff  to  haue  doen  it,  how  be  it,  it  becummyth 
the  people  of  Criste  to  obey  and  folow  their  rewellers  which  hath  geven  study  and  is  lemed  in  such 
matters  as  their  people  showd  heir  and  beleve,  thai  showd  not  iudge  the  doctrine  of  Paule  ne  of  Paule 
vicares  and  successours  bot  be  iudged  by  their  learrijTig  as  long  as  thai  knaw  nothyng  contrary  Goddes 
lawes  as  Saynt  Bernard  saith  most  goodly  and  clerkly  in  libro  de  dispensatione  et  pracepto. 

Vale  in  al  haist  Your  awne,  Robert  Ridlev,  priest. 

Item,  illud  PauH,  stuUas  qucestitmes  devita  ^/f.**— bewarre  of  fowlishe  problemes  or  qucstiones  in  the 
scoles.  Hoc  procul  dubio  dictum  in  odium  scolasticx  theologiz  et  universitatum.  Such  a  thyng  is  in 
the  translation,  thowh  it  be  not  in  the  same  wordes.  Ego  et  pater  ttnum^  sumus,^  We  ar  on,  quasi 
diceret,  unus  *>  sumus,  and  not  on  substance  or  on  thyng.  Shew  yc  to  the  people  that  if  any  be  of  so 
prowde  and  stubume  stomac  that  he  will  beleve  there  is  no  fawt  ne  errour  except  it  be  declared  to  hym 
that  he  may  se  it,  latt  hym  cum  hither  to  my  lorde*^  which  hath  profowndly  examined  al  and  he  shal  heir 
and  se  errours  except  that  he  be  bl>'nde  and  haue  no  eys.**  24  FcbruariL 

Master  Gold,  I  pray  you  be  goode  to  this  pore  whoman,  Gyl  Barttes  wh3rff,  as  yet  your  tenawnt.** 

*  See  p.  3  oi prologge.  »  Matt.  iii.  2.  portions  of  the  Scripture  was  passed  on  s8  Aug. 
»  Matt.  XI.  29.  *  Stc  p.  z'l  of  prologge.  1525.  Lelong.  Bibl.Sacrte,  i.^ZS-  **  Mai.  iL  7. 
»  Sec  pp.  13, 14  of  Prologge.  «  Ps.  cxix.  112.  *»  A  Carthusian  monk,  Pierre  Sutoris,  who  was 
'  Heb.  xL  26.                                        »  Luke  xvi.  9.  also  a   Doctor  of  Theology,  wrote  De  Tra/atione 

•  See  /.  8  ofproloare.  '<•  2  Cor.  v.  la  Biblite,  et  noroarum  reprobatione  tnterpretationttm. 
"  Gen.  xxii.i6.  "Matt.  xxv.  35.  "  Matt.  xxv.  34.  Licensed  5  Dec.  1524.  ITie  printing  by  Jehan  Petit 
*«  From  the  quotation  Rom.  lii.  23  immediately  finished  28  Feb.  1525.     The  22nd  and  ust  rhap<<?r 

following,  I  take  this  title  to  be  that  of  the  New  deals  with  vernacular  translations. 

Testaments,  both  wanting  in  the  only  copies  known.  •♦  2  Tim.  ii.  23.   •*  Neuter.  ••  Johii  x.  3a    "^  Maac 
"  See  text  "at /» 17.           _                  *•  Matt.  i.  i.  "  A  significant  admission  of  the  cstimatioa  that 

W  Matt.  i.  19.         »•  Rom.  iiL  23.        '»  Matt.  iiL  2.  T>'ndale  s.  Testaments  were  held  in  by  the  people. 
^  i.e.  Repent  msie^A  of  Do  penance.  **  Tonstall  would  have  tried  impruoameiit  and 

*•  The  arrit  of  the  Parliament  of  Paris  condemn-  punishment  to  improve  their  eyesigat. 

ing  Le  Fevrc  d'Etaples'  translation  into  French  of  ■'  'ITiis  line  is  written  in  a  diOerent  tm^d, 


54  THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 

Ye  shal  not  neede  to  accuse  this  translation.  It  is  accused  and  damned  by  the  consent  of  the  prelates 
and  learned  men,  and  commanded  to  be  brynt,  both  heir  and  beyonde  the  see,  wher  is  many  hundreth 
of  tham  brynt,  so  that  it  is  to  layt  now  to  ask  reson  why  that  be  condemned,  and  which  be  the  fawtes 
and  errours. 

Luther  and  his  scoole  teachith  quod  nos  non  cooperamus  cum  gratia  dei,  sed  tantum  patimur  ut  saxa 
et  stipites,  bycawse  of  that  this  texte,  non  ego  sed  gratia  dei  mecum,'^  thus  is  translate,  not  I  bot  the  grace 
of  God  in  me.  Quam  hoc  hoeretice,  maligne,  seditiose  et  falso  translatum  sit,  qui  non  perpendit,  stupidus 
est.     My  lorde  your  master  hath  of  thies  bowkes  geven  and  sende  to  hym  by  my  lorde  my  master. 

Shew  the  people  that  ye  be  cum  to  declare  vnto  tham,  that  certai[n]  bowkes  be  condemned  by  the 
cownsell  and  profownde  examination  of  the  prelates  and  fathers  of  the  chirch. 

Addressed.    To  Master  Henry  Golde,  Chaplayne  to  my  lorde  of  Canterbery,  at  Knolle. 

Cott.  MSS.,  Cleo.  E.  v.  :  f.  362.  b. 

7.  Meanwhile,  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  had  been  actively  but  quietly 
at  work,  buying  up,  through  his  agents  abroad,  all  the  English  New  Testa- 
ments he  possibly  could  obtain.  This  action  on  the  part  of  Warham  but 
further  illustrates  the  great  union  and  activity  of  the  English  Hierarchy  in 
stamping  out  the  condemned  translation. 

Having  completed  his  purchases,  and  apparently  believing  that  he  had 
bought  up  the  whole  of  the  three  Editions  by  this  time  in  existence,  the 
Archbishop  issued,  on  the  26th  May  1527,  a  circular  letter  to  his  suffragan 
Bishops  soliciting  contributions  towards  these  expenses.  We  obtain  our 
knowledge  of  'what  he  had  thus  accomplished,  from  the  following  reply  of 
Nix,  the  blind  Bishop  of  Norwich. 

In  right  humble  maner  I  commende  me  vnto  your  goode  Lordeshippe  doyinge  the  same  t'undrestande  that 
I  lately  receyued  your  Lettres,  dated  at  your  Manor  of  Lambethe  the  xxvj  daie  of  the  monethe  of  Maij  ; 
by  the  whiche  I  do  perceyue  that  youre  Grace  hath  lately  goten  into  your  handes  all  the  boks  of  the  Newe 
Testamente  translated  into  Englesshe  and  pryented  beyonde  the  Sea,  aswele  those^  with  the  gloses  ioyned 
vnto  theym  as  th'oder  ^  withoute  the  gloses,  by  meanes  of  exchaunge  by  you  made  therfore,  to  the  somme 
of  Ixvj/z  ixj  m]d.    f;^997.] 

Surely,  in  myn  opynion,  you  haue  done  therin  a  graciouse  and  a  blessed  dede,  and  God,  I  doubt  not, 
shall  highly  rewarde  you  therfore.  And  where  in  your  said  Letters,  ye  write  that  in  so  moche  as  this 
mater  and  the  daunger  therof  of  remedie  had  not  be  prouyded  shulde  not  only  haue  towched  you,  but  all 
the  Busshopes  within  your  Province  ;  and  that  it  is  no  reason  that  the  holle  charge  and  coste  therof 
shulde  reste  only  in  you  ;  but  that  they  and  euery  of  theym  for  their  parte  shulde  avaunce  and  contribute 
certain  sommes  of  money  towarde  the  same  ;  I  for  my  parte  wulbe  contented  to  avaunce  in  their  behalue, 
and  to  make  paymente  therof  vnto  Maister  William  Potkyn  your  servaunte. 

Pleaseth  it  you  t'undrestande  that  I  am  right  wele  contented  to  yeve  and  avaunce  in  this  behalue  ten 
marks  [at  i3J.4«f.=;^6  13J.  4^.,  equal  to  ;£ioo  now],  and  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  delyuered  vnto  the  said 
maister  Potkyn  shortely,  the  which  somme  I  thinke  sufficient  for  my  parte,  if  euery  Busshopp  within  your 
said  Provynce  make  like  contribution  and  avauncemente  after  the  rate  and  substance  of  their  benefices. 
Neuer  the  lesse  if  your  Grace  thinke  this  somme  of  ten  marks  not  sufficient  for  my  parte  in  this  mater,  your 
fudre  pleasure  knowen,  I  shalbe  as  gladde  to  conforme  my  self  ther  unto  in  this  or  any  other  mater 
concernynge  the  Churche,  as  any  your  subgiet  within  your  Provynce.    As  knowes  Almighty  God,  who 


'  I  Cor.  XV.  10.  Endhoven  reprinted  the  Quarto  and  not  the  Octavo. 

'  '  TVi^j^  with  the  gloses    .    .    .    ^/iWifr  withoute        If  so,  would  that  afford  a  presumption   that  the 
the  gloses'  would  seem  to  show  that  Christopher       Quarto  was  published  before  the  Octavo? 


THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND.  ^^    V^       - 

longe  preserue  you  to  his  most  pleasure  and  your  herts  desire.    At  Hoxne  in  Suff.  the  xiiij.  daie  of  Junii     'W^^  »    **     ^.       ' 
1527.    Yor  humble  obediencier  and  baidman  R.  Norwicbn.  *i,        ^^  J 

I  wold  be  as  gladd  to  wayte  vpon  your  Lordeshipp  and  do  my  duetie  vnto  you  as  any  man  lyvinge,  ^^«»— _— - 

but  I  thinke  I  can  not  so  do  this  somer.     I  praye  God  I  may  have  some  tyme  for  to  do  it. 

Sir  H.  Ellis*  OH^nal  Letters,  3rd  Ser.  it.  86-92.  Ed.  1846.  The  Original  b  Cott.  MSS.  Vitell.  B.  ix., 
fol.  117.  orig. 

With  this  letter  we  must  conclude  our  notice  of  the  events  of  1527,  the 
second  year  of  the  New  Testaments  being  in  this  country. 

8.  It  was  in  1528  that  the  persecution  first  began  against  the  readers  of 
the  New  Testament.  On  the  7th  March  of  that  year,  Tonstall,  Bishop  of 
London,  licensed  Sir  Thomas  More,  then  Chancellor  of  the  Duchy  of  Lan- 
caster, to  have  and  read  Lutheran  books,  in  order  that  he  might  confute 
them ;  'For  as  muche  as  you,  dearly  beloued  brother,  can  playe  the 
Demosthenes,  both  in  this  our  Englyshe  tongue  and  also  in  the  Latin.' ^ 

More  immediately  set  to  work  and  published,  before  the  end  of  the  year, 
his  Dyaloge ;  which  was  the  first  instalment  of  a  long  controversy  in  the 
course  of  which  he  successively  attacked  Tyndale,  Barnes,  Frith,  and  Sir 
John  Some;  which  controversy  lasted  up  to  his  imprisonment  in  1535,  that 
ended  in  his  ever  to  be  lamented  death. 

In  More's  Dyaloge  we  get  at  the  way  the  English  Bishops  counted  up 
the  three  thousand  errors  in  Tyndale's  translation.  The  book  is  an 
imaginary  Dialogue  between  himself  and  the  confidential  messenger  of  a 
friend  to  whom  (cumberously  enough)  he  writes  an  account  of  their 
conversation,  as  if  the  messenger  would  not  have  reported  it  himself.  It  is 
a  distortion  of  the  Table  Talk  which  constitutes  the  framework  of  Utopia^ 
just  as  the  whole  of  More's  well  meant  efforts  in  the  controversy  are  a  dis- 
tortion of  the  natural  bent  of  his  genius,  leading  him  to  a  reckless  vituper- 
ation of  his  opponents. 

|ot  now  I  pray  you  let  rae  know  your  mjmde  concemyng  the  bumyng  of  the  newe  testament 
in  englysh  whiche  TyTidall  lately  translated/  and  (as  men  say)  ryght  well/  which  maketh 
men  moche  meruayll  of  ye  bumyng. 
C  It  is  quod  I  to  me  great  meruayll/  that  any  good  crysten  man  hauying  any  drop  of  wyt  in  his  hede/  wold 
any  thyng  meruayll  or  complayne  of  the  bumynge  of  that  booke  yf  he  knowe  the  matter.  Whych  who  so 
callyth  the  newe  testament  calleth  it  by  a  wronge  namcf  except  they  wyll  call  it  Tyndals  testament  or 
Luthers  testament  For  so  had  Tyndall  after  Luthers  counsayle  corrupted  and  chaunged  it  from  the 
good  and  holsom  doctryne  of  Cryste  to  the  deuylysh  heresyes  of  theyr  owne  that  it  was  clcne  a  contrary 
thyng. 

4[  That  were  memayle  quod  your  frende  that  it  dioide  be  so  dene  contrary.  For  to  some  that  red  it  it 
semed  very  lyke, 

<  It  is  quod  I  neuer  the  lesse  contrary/  and  yet  the  more  peryllous.  For  lyke  as  to  a  trew  lylu^r  grote 
as  false  coper  grote  is  neuer  the  lesse  contrary  thoughe  it  be  quycke  syluered  ouer/  but  so  muche  the  more 
false  in  bowe  moche  it  is  counterfeted  the  more  lyke  to  the  trouth/   so  was  the  iranslacyon  so  moche  the 

•  The  Bishop's  letter  is  given  by  Fox  in  his  Acles,  &*€.,  //.  491-3.  Ed.  iS^J* 


56  THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 

more  contrary  in  how  moche  it  was  craftely  deuysed  lyke/  and  so  moche  the  more  peryllous  in  howe 
moche  it  was  to  folke  vnlernyd  harde  to  be  dyssernyd. 

C  Why  quod  your  frende  what  fautys  were  there  in  it  ? 

C  To  tell  j^ou  all  that  quod  If  were  in  a  maner  to  reherse  you  all  the  hole  boke/  wherein  there  were 
founden  and  noted  wronge  or  falsly  translated  aboue  a  thousande  textys  by  tale. 

C  I  wolde  quod  he  fayne  here  some  one. 

<[  He  that  sholde  quod  I  study  for  that/  sholde  study  where  to  fynde  water  in  the  see.  But  I  wyll  shewe 
you  for  ensample  two  or  thre  suche  as  euery  one  of  the  thre  is  more  than  thryes  thre  in  one. 

C  That  were  quod  he  very  stfaunge  excepte  ye  mene  more  in  weyght.  For  one  can  be  but  one  in 
nomber. 

<[  Surely  quod  I  as  weyghty  be  they  as  any  lyghtly  can  be.  But  I  mene  that  euery  one  of  them  is  more 
than  thryes  thre  in  nomber. 

<I  That  were  quod  he  some  what  lyke  a  rydelf. 

C  This  rydell  quod  I  wyll  sone  be  red.  For  |he  hath  mysse  translated  three  wordes  of  grete  weyght  and 
euery  one  of  them  is  as  I  suppose  more  than  thryse  three  tymes  repeted  and  reherced  in  the  boke. 

C  Ah  that  maye  well  be  quod  he/  but  that  was  not  well  done.     But  I  pray  you  what  wordes  be  they  ? 

<[  The  one  is  quod  I  this  worde  prestys.  The  other  the  chyrche.  The  thyrde  charyte.  For  prestys 
where  so  euer  he  speketh  of  the  prestes  of  Crystes  chyrche  he  neuer  calleth  them  prestes  but  alway 
senyoursj  the  chyrche  he  calleth  alway  the  congregacyon|  and  charyte  he  calleth  alway  loue. — 
Book  III.  c.  8.  /ol.  97.  Ed,  1530. 

More  touched  the  apple  of  T)nidale's  eye  in  thus  charging  his  translation 
with  intentional  falsification.  So  the  first  half  of  his  Aiiswej-e  is  occupied 
with  giving  '  a  reason  of  certayne  wordes  which  Master  More  rebuketh/  as — 

What  the  church  is  ?  Whey  he  vsed  this  worde  congregacion  rather  than  church  ?  Why  elder  and  not 
presti  Why  loue  rather  then  chary tel  "^Yiy  fauoure  and  not  grace  1  Why  knowledge  and  not 
confessyon\  refeiitaunce  and  not  penatmce  ? 

Tyndale  herein  defended  the  new  ideas  which  he  had  associated  to  the 
old  familiar  words. 

When  therefore  in  the  second  part  of  his  Answere  he  comes  to  the 
above  passage  all  the  reply  he  vouchsafes  to  it  is  this  : — 

Vnto  church/  prest/  charite/  grace/  confession  and  penaunce  is  answered  him  in  the  begynnynge  of  the 
boke.     And  when  he  sayth  Tyndale  was  confederatt  with  Luther  that  is  not  trueth.    Fol.  xcij. 

9.  In  the  months  of  February  to  June,  1528,  Bishop  Tonstall,  assisted  by 
his  Vicar  General,  Geoffrey  Wharton,  D.D.,made  inquisition  as  regards  Bible 
reading  heretics  until,  as  he  writes  to  Wolsey,  on  the  15  March  of  that  year 
respecting  a  suspected  Reader,  '  I  committed  hym  to  the  Flete  bycause  al 
my  presons  be  ful  off  other  persons  out  off  the  fordest  parte  of  my  Diocese.' 
To  give  an  account  of  all  the  depositions  obtained  in  this  inquisition  would 
be  to  write  the  history  of  the  English  Reformation  of  this  and  some  previous 
years.  Somewhat  we  have  gathered  already  in  respect  to  the  Distributors, 
and  our  space  will  only  permit  us  to  quote  one  other  account  of  the  early 
readers  of  our  now  familiar  Testaments. 

10.  There  is  preserved  in  the  first  edition  of  Fox's  Ades,  &"€..,  an  intensely 
graphic  but  unfinished  memorandum,  written  from  memory  in  1562, 
expressly  for  the  martyrologist,  by  Anthony  Dalaber,  an  Oxford  scholar. 


THE   PERSECUTICX  IX  ENGLAND.  57 

C  CoHCtrttingt  tkt  stcrye  of  Thomas  Caret,  and  thingts  dotu  in  Oxforde,  by  his  time,  rtporietl  to  vs 
by  Antony  Dalaberi  who  ivas  present  at  the  same. 

|N  theyeare  of  our  Lord   God  a  1536.'  or  there  aboutc,  maister  Ball  of  Martyn  CoUedge,  and 

master  Cole  of  Magdalen  Colledge  bcinge  proctoures  in  the  moneth  of  February,'  \i  e.  1598] 

maister  Garel'  curate  of  Hoonye  lane  in  London,  came  vnto  Oxforde,  and  broughtc  with  him 

sondrye  bokes  in  Lattcn  trealinge  of  the  Scripture,  with  the  fyrste  part  of  Vnio  Jissidentium, 

and  Tindals  fyrste  translation  of  the  new  Testament  in  English,  the  which  bookes  he  solde  to  diuers 

scholers  in  Oxford,  whose   names  for  his  accomptable  memorye  belike,  he  wrote  in  a  small  booke  of 

accomptes. 

After  he  had  bene  there  a  while,  and  had  dispatched  those  bookes,  newes  came  from  London  that  he 
was  searched  for  in  all  Tendon  to  be  apprehended  and  taken  as  an  heretike,  and  to  haue  bene  emprisonned, 
for  sellinge  of  those  heretical  bokes  (as  they  termed  them)  because  they  spake  againste  the  vsurpcd 
autoritye,  and  mooste  filthye  doctrine,  of  that  very  Antichrist  the  bishoppe  of  Rome,  and  his  no  lesse  fylthye 
and  wicked  sinagoge,  for  it  was  knowen  vnto  Cardinall  Wolsey,  and  to  the  Bishoppe  of  London,  and  to 
other  of  that  vngodly  generation,  that  master  Caret  had  a  greate  nomber  of  those  hereticall  bookes,  as 
the  worlde  then  counted  them,  and  that  he  was  gone  to  Oxforde  to  make  sale  of  them  there  to  suche  as  he 
knew  to  be  louers  of  the  Gospell.  Wherefore  they  determined  forthwith  to  make  a  preuye  searche  thorowe 
all  Oxforde  to  take  and  imprison  him  if  they  mighte,  and  to  bume  all  and  euerye  his  foresaide  bookes  and 
him  to,  if  they  coulde :  so  buminge  whotte  was  the  charitye  of  those  mooste  holye  fathers. 

But  yet  at  that  time  one  of  the  foresaide  proctors,  master  Cole  of  Maudelen  Colledge,  who  after  was 
Crosse  bearer  vnto  the  Archbishop  of  Yorke,  was  well  acquainted  with  master  Caret,  and  therefore  he 
gaue  scacrete  wamynge  on  the  Tuesday  before  Shrofetuesday  [18  Feb.]  vnto  a  frende  or  two  of  master 
Garettes  of  this  preuy  search  and  willed  therfore  that  he  shoulde  forthwith  as  secreatlye  as  he  possyble 
coulde,  depart  oute  of  Oxforde,  for  if  he  were  taken  in  the  same  search,  no  remeady  but  that  he  should 
be  foiihwith  sent  vp  vnto  the  Cardinal,  and  so  should  be  Committed  vnto  the  towre.  The  Christmas 
before  that  time  [i.e.  1527]  Antony  Dalaber  then  scholer  of  Albome  Haull,  who  hadde  bookes  of  master 
Carets,  hadde  bene  in  his  country  in  Dorsette  shire  at  Stalbridge  wher  he  had  a  brother  person  of 
that  Parish,  who  was  verj-e  desirous  to  haue  a  Curate  oute  of  Oxforde,  and  willed  me  the  said  Antonye 
in  anye  wise  to  get  hym  one  ther  if  I  could,  then  this  iust  occasion  offred,  it  was  thoughte  good  among; 
the  brethren  (for  so  did  we  not  only  call  one  an  other,  but  were  in  dede  one  to  the  other)  that  master 
Garret  chaunginge  bis  name  shoulde  be  sente  forth  wjnh  my  letters  into  Dorsette  shire  vnto  my  brother, 
to  seme  him  there  for  a  time  vntill  he  mighte  secreatly  from  thence  conuaye  him  self  som  where  ouer 
the  sea.  According  here  vnto  I  wrote  my  letters  in  all  hast  possible  vnto  my  brother,  for  maister  Caret 
to  be  his  curate;  but  not  declaringe  what  he  was  in  deede.  For  my  brother  was  a  mayster  of  Arte  and 
rancke  Papist,  and  after  was  the  most  mortall  ennemye  that  eucr  I  hadde  for  the  Gospjelles  sake. 

So  the  Wensdaye  in  the  mominge  before  shroftide  [19  Feb.]  master  Caret  departed  out  of  Oxford 
towarde  Dorset  shire  with  my  letters  for  hys  new  seruice,  how  farre  he  went,  and  by  what  occasion  he  so 
sone  returned  I  know  not,  but  the  friday  next  [21  Feb.]  inThe  nighte  time  he  came  againe  vnto  Radleis 
house  where  he  lay  before,  and  so  after  midnight  in  the  priuy  search  which  was  then  made  for  him,  he  was 
apprehended  and  taken  there  in  his  bed  by  the  two  proctors,  and  on  the  Saterday  [22  Feb.]  in  the  mominge 

*  This  date  has  unfortunately   been  a  fmitful  commissary  [=  vice-chancellor)  by  the  designment 

source  of  error  to  many  writers.     The  year  is  1528,  -  of  the  Chancellor  Archbp.  Warham:  and  took  his 

not  1526.  The  Testaments  were  hardly  arrived  in  the  oath  on  7  Dec.  1527.  IVood,  Fasti  Oxen.  i.  76.  Ed. 

country  in  Feb.  1526  :  but  there  h.-»d  been  in  the  two  1815. 

following  years  sufficient  time  to  form  the  associa-  (')  In  the  first  letterof  the  Garret  corre<!pondcnce 

tion,  *  the  little  flock '  of  the    '  brethren '  at  Oxford  occurs 'Thys  monday  the                             ^'nthias' : 

referred  to  in  the  narrative.     Yet  is  there  a  certain  which  occurred  in  1528.      i                               -ndered 

tmth  in  the  statement,  for  Pall  and  Cole  were  the  indubitable  by  other  poiiK-.  >.;  ....^. .....  ^..Jcncein 

successive  senior  Proctors ;  S.  Ball  of  Merton  Col-  the  letters  connected  with  Garret's  apprehension,  in 

lege  being  so  elected  on  n  Apr.  1526  and  so  remain-  the  State  Paper  office.         _ 

ing  till  7  May  1527,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  A.  •  1517-  Th  >                                         '^as  this  year 

Cole  of  Magdalen  College,  who  held  that  office  until  admitted  :  h\v                                         1 ,  appears  not, 

21  Apr.  1528  ;  and  was  therefore  the  senior  Proctor  because  the  1  ,.                                     >wever  m  the 

at  the  time  of  Garret's  apprehension  in  Feb.  1528.  year  following  he  occurs  by  llie  uUe  of  Batch,  of 

(»)  John  Cottysford,  D.  D.,  of  Lincoln  Coll.,  became  Arts.     Wood,  idem.  /.  45. 

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58  THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 

deliuered  vnto  one  Dfoctor]  Cotissford,  master  of  Lincoln  colledge  then  beinge  commissarye  of  the  vniuer- 
sitye,  who  kepte  him  as  prisoner  in  his  own  Chamber.  There  was  great  ioye  and  reioysinge,  among  all 
the  Papistes  for  his  apprehension  and  especially  with  D[octor].  London  Warden  of  the  New  colledge,  and 
D[octor].  Higdon  deane  of  Frideswides^  two  Archpapistes.  Who  immediatly  sent  their  letters  in  post  hast 
vnto  the  Lord  Cardinal  to  enforme  him  of  the  apprehension  of  this  notable  heretike  .  for  the  whiqhe  their 
doinge,  they  were  well  assured  to  haue  great  thankes. 

But  of  all  this  sodaine  hurly  burly,  was  I  vtterly  ignoraunt,  so  that  I  knew,  neither  of  master  Carets  so 
sodaine  retourne,  neyther  that  he  was  so  taken.  For  after  I  had  sent  him  oute  of  Oxford  with  my  letters, 
as  before  is  saj^de,  the  same  weke,  having  taken  a  chamber  in  Glocester  Colledge,^  for  that  purpose  to 
studye  the  ciuil  law,  because  the  scholers  in  Alborne  HalP  were  all  arceturs  ;*  I  remoued  all  suche  poore 
stuffe  as  I  had  from  thence  vnto  Glocester  colledge,  and  there  was  I  much  busied  in  setting  vp  ijkorder  of 
my  bed,  of  my  bokes,  and  of  such  thinges  as  I  els  had,  so  that  I  had  no  leiser  to  go  forthe  any  where 
those  two  dales,  Fridaye  and  Saterday.  And  hauing  set  vp  all  my  thinges  handsomely  in  order  the  same 
daye  [Sat.  22  Feb.]  before  none,  I  determined  to  spende  that  whole  after  none,  vntil  Euensonge  time  at 
Frisewide  colledge,^  at  my  boke  in  mine  owne  studye,  and  so  shutte  my  chamber  doore  vnto  me,  and  my 
study  dore  also,  and  toke  in  my  hand  to  read  Frances  Lambert  vpon  the  gospel  of  Saint  Luke,  which 
booke  only  I  had  then  within  there,  all  my  other  bookes  wrytten  on  the  scripture,  of  which  I  had  a  great 
nomber,  as  of  Erasmus,  of  Luther,  Oecolampadius  etc.  I  had  yet  lefte  in  my  chamber  at  Alborne  Hall, 
where  I  had  made  a  very  secreat  place  to  keep  them  safe  in,  because  it  was  so  dangerous  to  haue  any 
such  bokes. 

And  so  as  I  was  diligently  readinge  in  the  said  boke  of  Lambert  vpon  Luke,  sodenly  one  knocked  at  my 
chamber  dore  verye  hard,  which  made  me  astonied,  but  yet  I  sate  stil  and  would  not  speak,  then  he 
knocked  again  more  harder,  and  yet  I  held  my  peace,  and  straighte  way  he  knocked  yet  againe  more 
fierslye,  and  then  I  thought  this,  peraduenture  it  is  some  body  that  hath  nede  of  me,'^nd  therfore  I 
thought  me  bound  to  doo,  as  I  would  be  done  vnto  and  so  laying  my  boke  a  side,  I  came  to  ye  dore  and 
opened  it.  And  there  was  maister  Garret  as  a  mased  manne,  whome  I  thoughte  then  to  haue  bene  with  my 
brother,  and  one  with  him,  assone  as  I  saw  him,  he  saide  he  was  vndone,  for  he  was  taken  not  remembring 
that  he  spake  this  before  the  yonge  manne.  Then  I  asked  him  what  that  yonge  man  was,  he  aunswered 
that  it  was  one,  who  broughte  him  vnto  my  chamber,  then  I  thanked  the  younge  man,  and  bad 
him  farewell,  and  asked  mayster  Garret  whether  the  yonge  man  was  his  frend  or  no  ?  and  what 
acquaintaunce  he  had  with  him  ?  He  said  he  knew  him  not,  but  he  had  bene  to  seke  a  monke  of 
his  acquaintaunce  in  that  colledge  who  was  not  within  his  chamber,  then  he  besought  this  his  seruaunt  to 
bring  him  vnto  my  chamber,  and  so  forthe  declared  howe  he  was  returned  and  taken  that  nighte 
in  the  preuye  searche  as  ye  haue  harde,  and  that  now  at  Euensonge  time  the  Commissary  and  al  his 
companye  went  to  Euensonge,  and  locked  hj'm  alone  in  his  chamber,  when  all  were  gone,  and  he  hard  no 
bodye  stirringe  in  the  Colledge,  he  put  backe  the  barre  of  the  locke  with  hys  fynger,  and  so  came  straight 
vnto  Glocester  Colledge  to  that  monke,  if  he  hadde  bene  wythin,  who  had  also  bought  bokes  of  him. 

Then  said  I  vnto  him.  Alas  mayster  G^ret  by  this  your  vncircumspecte  comminge  vnto  me,  and 
speaking  so  before  this  yonge  man,  ye  haue  disclosed  your  selfe  and  vtterlye  vndone  me,  I  asked  him  whye  he 
went  not  vnto  my  brother  wyth  my  letters  accordinglye,  he  saide  after  he  was  gone  a  dales  iourney  and  a 
halfe,  he  was  so  fearefull  that  his  heart  would  no  other  but  that  he  muste  neades  retourne  againe  vnto 
Oxforde,  and  so  came  againe  on  Fridaye  at  nighte,  and  then  was  taken  as  ye  hard  before.  But  nowe  with 
deepe  sighes  and  plentye  of  teares  he  prayed  me  to  healpe  to  conuaye  hym  away,  and  so  he  cast  of  his 
hode  and  his  gown,  wherein  he  came  vnto  me,  and  desired  me  to  geue  him  a  coate  wyth  sleues  if  I  hadde 
anye,and  toldemethat  he  wouldegoo  into  Wales,  and  thence  conuey  him  selfe  intoGermanye  if  he  mighte, 
and  then  I  put  on  him  a  sleued  cote  of  mine  of  fine  cloth  in  graine,  which  my  mother  hadde  geuen  me,  he 
woulde  haue  an  other  manner  of  cappe  of  me,  but  I  hadde  none  but  priest  like,  such  as  his  owne  was.  Then 
knealed  we  bothe  downe  together  on  oure  knees,  liftinge  vp  oure  heartes  and  handes  to  GOD  our  heauenlye 
father,  desiring  him  with  plentye  of  teares,  so  to  conducte  and  prosper  hym  in  his  iourney,  that  he  mighte 
well  escape  the  daunger  of  all  his  ennemies,  to  the  glorye  of  his  holye  name,  if  his  good  pleasure  and  will 

'  Now  Christ  Church  College.  and  now  Worcester  College. 

2  Previously  called  St.  John  Baptist's  Hall,  after-  ^  i  ^.  gt.  Alban's  Hall, 

wards  Glyuccster  College  ;  then  Gloucester  Hall,  *  Arcetyr,  a  learner  or  teacher  of  art. 


A 


TiiF.  ri:nr.F.cvripN  im  England.  59 

so  were,  and  then  we  embraced  .iiul  kisse<l  the  one  the  other,  the  teares  so  aboundauntly  flowinge  oute  from 
bothe  our  eyes,  that  we  all  bewette  both  oure  faces,  and  skarslye  for  sorrowe  collide  wc  sjKiake  one  to 
the  other,  and  so  he  departed  from  me,  apparelled  in  my  cote,  beinge  committed  vnto  the  tuition  of  oure 
almightye  and  all  mercifuU  father. 

When  ^ee  was  gone  downe  the  staires  from  my  Chamber,  I  straight  waies  did  shut  my  chamber  dore,  and 
went  into  my  studye  shuttinge  the  doore  vnto  mc,  and  tooke  the  ncwe  Tcstamentcof  Erasmus  translation 
in  my  handes,  kneled  downe  on  my  knees,  and  with  manye  a  depe  sigh  and  salt  tere,  I  did,  with  much 
deliberation  read  ouer  the  x.  chapter  of  s.  Matthew  his  Gospell,  and  when  I  had  so  doone,  with  feruent 
prayer  I  did  commit  vnto  God,  that  our  dcarlye  beloued  brother  Caret,  earnestlye  beseching  him,  in  and 
for  lesus  Christes  sake,  his  only  begotten  Sonne  our  Lord,  yat  he  would  vouchsafe,  not  only  safely  to  con- 
duct and*  kepe  our  saide  deare  brother  from  the  handes  of  all  his  ennemies,  but  also  that  he  woulde 
vouchendew  his  tender  and  lately  borne  litle  flocke  in  Oxford,  with  heauenlye  strength  by  his  holy  spirite 
that  they  might  be  well  able  thereby  valeauntly  to  withstande  to  his  glory  all  their  fierse  enemies,  and 
also  might  quietly  to  theyr  owne  saluation  with  all  godlye  patience,  beare  Christes  heauy  crosse  :  which 
I  now  sawe  was  presently  to  be  laide  on  their  yong  and  weake  backes,  vnable  to  beare  so  huge  a  one, 
without  the  great  healpe  of  his  holy  spirite. 

This  doon  I  laid  a  side  my  bokes  safe,  folded  vp  maister  Garrets  gowne  and  hoode,  and  laid  them  into 
my  presse  among  mine  apparel,  and  so  hauing  put  on  my  short  gowne  shut  vp  my  study  and  chamber 
d  )res,  and  went  towardes  Friswides  to  speake  with  that  worthy  martir  of  God  one  master  Clarke,  and 
others,  and  to  declare  vnto  them  what  had  happened  that  after  noone. 

But  of  purpose  I  went  by  S.  Mary  church  to  go  first  vnto  Corpus  Christi  colledge  to  speke  with  Dietand 
Vdall  1  my  faithful  brethren  and  felowes  in  the  Lorde  there,  but  by  chaunce  I  met  by  the  waye  with  a  brother 
of  oures,  one  Master  Edon  fellowe  of  Magdalen  Colledge,  who,  assone  as  he  saw  me,  came  with  a  pityfuU 
countenaunce  vnto  me,  sayinge  that  we  were  all  vndone  for  maister  Garet  was  returned  again  to  Oxford, 
taken  the  last  night  in  the  priuy  search,  and  was  in  prison  with  the  commissary.  I  saide  it  was  not  so,  he  saide 
it  was  so,  I  said  nay,  and  he  said  ye.  I  told  him  it  could  not  be  so,  for  I  was  sure  he  was  gone,  he  an- 
sweared  me  and  saide,  I  knowe  he  was  gone  with  your  letters,  but  he  came  againe  yester  euen  and  was 
taken  in  his  bed  at  Radleis  this  night  in  the  priuy  searche,  for  quod  he^  I  hard  our  proctor  master  Cole  say 
and  declare  the  same  this  day  in  oure  Colledge  to  diuers  of  the  house.  But  I  told  him  again  that  I  was 
wel  assured  he  was  now  gone,  for  I  spake  with  him  later  then  either  the  proctor  or  commissary  djd,  and 
then  I  declared  the  whole  matter  vnto  hym,  hojv  and  when  he  came  vnto  me,  and  howe  he  went  his  way, 
willing  him  to  declare  the  same  vnto  other  our  brethren  whom  he  should  mete  withall,  and  to  geue  God 
harty  thanckes  for  this  his  wonderful  deliueraunce,  and  to  praye  him  also  that  he  would  graunt  him  safely  e 
to  passe  awaye  from  all  his  ennemies.  And  tolde  him  that  I  was  goinge  vnto  master  Clarke  of  Friswides,  to 
declare  vnto  him  this  matter,  for  I  knew  and  thought  verely  that  he  and  diuers  others  there  wer  then  in 
great  sorow  for  this  matter,  and  prayed  maister  Edon  that  he  would  goo  home  by  Albome  Hal  to  desire 
my  bedfelow  sir  Fitziames  *  (for  I  lay  with  him  in  Albome  hall)  to  mete  me  at  sir  Diets  chamber  in  Corpus 
Christi  Colledge  about  v.  of  the  clocke  after  Euensong,  and  then  I  went  straight  to  F'riswides. 

And  Euensong  was  bcgon,and  the  Deane,  and  the  other  canons  were  there  in  their  Gray  Amices, 
they  were  almost  at  Magnificat  before  I  came  thether.  I  stode  at  the  quier  dore  and  hard  master. 
Tauemer  play  and  others  of  the  chappel  there  sing,  with  and  among  whome  I  my  selfe  was  wont  to 
singe  also,  but  now  my  singing  and  musicke  was  turned  into  sighing  and  musing.  As  I  thus  and  ther  stode, 
in  commeth  Doctor  Cotisford  the  commissary,  as  fast  as  euer  he  could  go  bare  headed,  as  pale  as  ashes, 
I  knew  his  grefe  wel  incugh,  and  to  the  Deane  he  goeth  into  the  Quier,  where  he  was  sitting  in  his  stalle, 
and  talked  with  him  very  sorowfully,  what  I  know  not,  but  wherof  I  might  and  did  wel  and  truely 
gesse,  I  went  aside  from  the  quier  dore,  to  se  and  heare  more,  the  Commissarye  and  Deane  came  oute 
of  the  Quire,  wonderfullye  troubled  as  it  semed,  about  the  middle  of  the  church,  met  them  D[octor]. 
London,  puffing,  blusleringe,  and  blowinge  lyke  a  hungry  and  gredy  Lion  seking  his  pray.  They  talked 
together  a  while,  but  the  commissarye  was  much  blamed  of  them  for  kepinge  of  hys  prisoner  so  negligently, 
in  so  much  yat  he  wepte  for  sorowe.     And  it  was  knowen  abrode,  that  master  Garret  had  eskaped  awaye 

>  N.  Udall  afterwards  the  author  of  Roister  of  St.  Alban's  Hall,  took  hb  B.A.  ao  June  ist^. 
Z7m/^rtook  his  B.A.  on  30  May  1524.  He    became     (Roman    Catholic)    Archdeaqpn    of 

*  John  Fit/james  of  Nferton  College,  aflerwarrfr        Tatmton  and  Prebend  of  Wells  on  97  May  15S4 

II   ;; 


K^... 


6o  THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 

and  gone  out  of  the  Commissaries  chamber  at  Euensong  time,  whether  no  man  could  tel.  These  Doctors 
departed  and  sent  abrode  their  seruaunts  and  spies  euery  where. 

Mayster  Clarke  about  the  middle  of  Complin  ^  came  forth  of  the  quire,  I  followed  him  to  his  chamber, 
and  when  he  was  put  of  his  Graye  Amis  and  surples,  he  asked  me  how  I  did,  and  what  newes,  I  answeared 
him  not  so  wel  as  I  would,  because  the  newes  were  not  good,  but  verye  doubtfull  and  perilous,  and  so 
declared  what  was  happned  that  after  none.  Of  maister  Garrets  eskape  he  was  glad,  for  he  knew  of  his  fore- 
taking,  then  he  sent  for  one  master  Sumner,  and  master  Bets,  fellowes  and  canons  there,  in  the  meane  whyle 
he  gaue  me  a  very  godly  exhortation,  praying  God  to  geue  me,  and  all  the  reaste  of  oure  brethren,  pru- 
dentiavt  serj>e>itinatn,  et  simplicitatein  coltonbinam,  for  we  shoulde  haue  shortlye  muche  neade  there  of, 
as  he  verelye  thoughte.  When  master  Sumner  and  master  Bets  were  come  vnto  him,  he  caused  me  to 
declare  againe  the  whole  matter  vnto  them  two  wherof  they  were  very  gladde,  that  maister  Garret  was 
so  deliuered  trusting  that  he  shuld  escape  all  his  enemies.  They  wuld  haue  had  me  to  tary  and  haue 
supped  ther  with  them  ;  but  I  would  not  tary,  for  I  sayd  I  had  promised  to  go  vnto  Corpus  Christi  college 
to  comfort  our  other  bretherne  their,  who  were  no  lesse  sorowfull  then  they,  and  praied  them  to  tel  vnto 
our  other  bretherne  there  what  was  happened  :  for  there  wer  diuers  elsse  in  that  colledge. 

When  I  came  to  Corpus  Christi  colledge  I  founde  to  gether  in  Sir  Diets  chamber,  tarienge  and  lokinge 
for  me  Fitziames,  Diet,  and  Vdall,  they  knew  al  the  matter  before  by  maister  Edon,  whome  I  had  sent 
vnto  Fitziames,  but  yet  I  declared  the  matter  vnto  them  againe  and  so  I  taried  ther  and  supped  with  them 
in  that  chamber  where  they  had  prouided  meat  and  drinke  for  vs  before  my  comminge,  at  whiche  supper  we 
wer  not  very  mery,  consideringe  our  state  and  peril  at  hand.  When  we  had  end  our  supper  and  com- 
mitted our  whole  cause  with  feruent  sighs  and  harty  prayers  vnto  God  our  heuenly  father,  Fitziames 
would  nedes  haue  me  to  lye  that  night  with  him  in  my  old  lodginge  at  Alborne  Hall,  and  so  did  I :  But 
small  reste  and  litle  slepe  toke  we  both  their  that  night. 

In  the  Sunday  [23  Feb.]  in  the  morninge  I  was  vp  and  readye  by  fiue  of  the  clocke,  and  as  sone  as  I  could 
get  out  at  Alborne  Haull  dore,  I  went  straight  towardes  Glocester  colledge  to  my  chamber,  it  hadd  reyned 
that  morny[n]ge,  a  good  shuere  and  with  mi  goinge  I  had  all  to  be  sprinkeled  my  hose  and  my  shoes  with 
the  reiny  mire.  And  when  I  was  comein  vnto  Glocester  coledge,  which  was  about  vi.  of  the  clocke,  I  found 
the  gats  fast  shut,  wherat  I  did  much  merueil,  for  they  \^ere  wont  to  be  opened  daily,  long  befor  that  time, 
then  did  I  walk  vp  and  down  by  the  wall  ther,  a  whole  howre  before  the  gates  were  opened.  In  the 
meane  while  my  musinge  hed  beinge  full  of  forecastinge  cares,  and  my  sorowfull  hart  flowinge  with 
dollefull  sighes,  I  fully  determined  in  my  conscience  before  god,  yat,  if  I  shuld  chaunce  to  be  taken  and 
be  examined  I  wouldaccuse  no  man,  nor  declare  any  thing  further  than  I  did  already  perceiue  was  mani- 
festly knowen  before . 

And  so  when  the  gate  was  opened,  thinking  to  shift  my  selfe  and  to  put  on  a  longer  goune,  I  wente  in 
towardes  my  chamber,  and  ascendinge  vp  the  steyers,  would  haue  opened  my  dore,  but  I  could  not  in  a 
longe  season  do  it,  wherby  I  perceyued  yat  my  lock  had  bin  medled  with  all  and  therwith  was  somewhat 
altered.  Yet  at  last  with  much  a  do  I  opened  the  locke  and  went  in,  when  I  came  in,  I  did  see  my 
bedde  al  to  tosied  and  tumbled,  my  clothes  in  my  presse  throwen  dowen  and  my  study  dore  open 
wherof  I  was  much  amased  and  thought  verely  theire  was  made  their  some  serch  that  night  for  maister 
Caret,  and  that  it  was  knowen  of  hys  beinge  wythe  me,  by  the  monkes  man  that  brought  him  to  my 
chamber. 

Nowe  was  ther  lieng  in  the  next  chamber  vnto  me,  a  yonge  priest  monk  of  shirborne  abbey  in  the 
county  of  Dorset  come  thether  to  be  student,  where  I  was  brought  vppe  from  my  childhode  :  for  whose 
sake  partly  I  came  in  dede  vnto  that  Colledge,  to  enstructe  him  in  the  Laten  tongue,  and  in  other  thinges 
wherin  I  had  better  knowledge  then  he.  Thys  monke  assone  as  he  harde  me  in  the  chamber,  called  vnto 
me,  and  asked  me  where  I  lay  that  night.  I  told  him  that  I  lay  with  my  olde  bed  fellow  Fitz- 
iames at  Alborn  hall,  he  came  to  me  straight  way,  and  told  how  our  master  Caret  was  sought  in  my 
chamber,  and  asked  me  whether  he  was  with  me  yesterday  at  after  noone  or  no,  and  I  told  him  yea.  And 
finally  he  tolde  me  that  he  was  commaunded  to  bring  me  assone  as  I  came  in  vnto  the  prior  of  studentes 
named  Antony  Dunston  a  monke  of  Westminster,  who  nowe  is  bishop  of  Landafe.  And  so  while  he 
made  him  ready  by  me,  he  tolde  me  what  a  doo.  there  was  made  by  the  commissarie  and  the  two  proctors 
in  my  chamber  that  night,  with  billes  and  swords  thrusted  thorow  my  bedstraw,  and  how  euery  corner  of 

'  i.  e.  the  last  or  evening  prayer. 


THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND.  6i 

my  chamber  was  searched  for  master  Garret,  and  albeit  his  gown  and  hoodc  lying  in  my  prcsse  was  by 
thcym  all  to  tossed  and  tomblcd  wyth  my  clothes,  yet  did  they  not  percciue  them  there,  for  by  like  they 
toke  it  to  haue  bene  mine  own  clothes. 

This  so  troubled  me  that  I  forgot  to  make  cleane  my  hose  and  shoes,  and  to  shyfte  me  nto  an  other 
gowne  :  And  therefore  assone  as  he  was  readye,  so  all  to  be  dirted  as  I  was  with  the  rainy  weather,  and  in 
my  short  gown,  I  went  with  him  to  the  saide  Priors  chamber,  where  I  founde  the  said  prior  standing  and 
lokinge  formy  comminge.  He  asked  me  where  I  had  bene  that  nightc,  I  tolde  him  I  hye  at  Albom  hal  wkh 
my  old  bedfellow  Fitziames,  but  he  would  not  beleue  me,  he  asked  me  if  master  Caret  were  with  me  yester- 
daye  ?  I  tolde  hym  yea  :  then  he  would  knowe  where  he  was,  and  wherfore  he  came  vnto  me.  I  told 
him  I  knew  not  where  he  was  excepte  he  were  at  Woodstocke.  For  so  (said  I)  he  had  shewed  me  that  he 
woulde  goo  thether,  because  one  of  the  kepers  there  his  frend,  hadde  promised  him  a  piece  of  venison  to 
make  mearye  wyth  all  that  Shrofe  tide,  and.  that  he  woulde  haue  borowed  a  haite  and  a  paire  of  high  shoes 
of  me,  but  I  had  none  in  dede  to  lend  him.  This  tale  I  thought  metest  though  it  were  nothing  so.  Then 
hadde  he  spyed  on  my  fore  finger  a  bigge  ringe  of  siluer  verye  well  double  giltcd  with  two  letters  y}.  D. 
ingraued  in  it  for  my  name,  I  supose  he  thought  it  to  be  gold,  he  required  to  see  it,  I  toke  it  vnto  him, 
when  he  had  it  in  his  hand,  he  sayde  it  was  his  ring,  for  therin  was  his  name,  an  A.  for  Antonye,  and  a  D. 
for  Dunston.  \Vhen  I  harde  him  so  say,  I  wished  in  my  hart  to  be  as  well  deliuered  from  and  out  of  his 
company,  as  I  was  assured  to  be  deliuered  from  my  ring  for  euer.*  Then  he  called  for  pen,  inke,  and 
paper  and  commaunded  me  to  write  when  and  how  Caret  cam  vnto  me,  and  where  he  was  become. 

I  had  not  written  scarsly  three  wordes,  but  the  chiefe  bedell  with  two  or  three  of  the  commissaries  men,  were 
come  vnto  master  prior,  requiringe  him  straightwaies  to  bringe  vs  awaye  vnto  Lincolne  coledge  to  the  com- 
missary and  to  Z>[octor].  London.  Whether  when  I  was  brought  in  to  the  chapel :  there,  I  founde  maister 
D[octor].  Cottisforde  commissary,  maister  D[octor].  Higdon  then  Deane  of  the  Cardcnalls  colledge,  and 
D[octor].  London  Warden  of  ye  newe  Colledge  standinge  together  at  the  altar  in  the  chappcU,  when  they 
sawe  me  brought  vnto  them,  after  salutations  geuen  and  taken  betwen  them,  they  called  for  chaires  and 
satte  downe  and  called  for  me  to  come  to  them,  and  first  they  asked  what  my  name  was,  I  tolde  them  that 
my  name  was  Anthonye  Dalaber,  then  they  also  asked  me  how  longe  I  had  ben  student  in  the  vniuersity, 
and  I  told  them  almoste  three  yeares,  and  they  asked  me  what  I  studied.  I  told  them  that  I  had  red 
sophestry  and  logike  in  Albome  Hal  and -now  was  remoued  vnto  Glocester  coledg  to  study  the  ciuil  lawe, 
the  whiche,  the  forsaide  prior  of  studentes  affirmed  to  be  true.  Then  they  asked  me  whether  I  knew 
master  Carret  and  how  longe  I  had  knowen  him  I  told  them  I  knew  him  well,  and  had  knowen  him 
almoste  a  twelue  monethes,  they  asked  me  when  he  was  with  me  I  tolde  them  yesterday  at  after  none,  and 
now  by  this  time  whiles  they  hadde  me  in  this  talke,  one  came  in  vnto  them  which  was  sent  for,  with  pen, 
inke,  and  paper,  I  trowe  it  was  the  clarke  of  the  vniuersity.  As  sone  as  he  was  come,  there  was  a  bourd 
and  trestelles  with  a  forme  for  him  to  sit  on,  set  betwene  the  doctores  and  me,  and  a  greate  masse  book 
laid  before  me^nd  I  was  commaunded  to  lay  my  right  hand  on  it  and  to  swercthat  I  shoulde  truly  aunswer 
vnto  such  articles  and  interrogatories  as  I  should  be  by  them  examined  vpon.  I  made  daunger  of  it  a 
while  at  t]ie  first,  but  afterwarde  being  perswaded  by  them  partly  by  fayre  words  and  partly  by  great 
threats,  I  promised  to  do  as  they  wulde  haue  me,  lut  in  my  hart  nothynge  so  ment  to  do.  So  I  laide  my 
hand  on  the  booke,  and  one  of  them  gaue  me  my  oth,  and  that  donne  commaunded  me  to  kis  the  booke. 
Then  made  they  great  curtesye  betwene  them  who  should  examine,  and  minister  interrogatories  vnto  me, 
at  the  last  the  rankest  papisticall  pharesy  of  them  al  D[octor].  London*  toke  vpon  him  to  do  it. 

Then  he  asked  me  agayne,  by  my  oth  where  Maister  Carrett  was  an3  whether  I  had  conueihed  him,  I 
tolde  hym  I  hadde  not  conueyed  hym,  nor  yet  wiste  not  where  hee  was,  nor  whether  he  was  gon,  except 
he  were  gonne  to  woodstocke,  as  I  had  before  saide,  yat  he  shewed  me  he  would. 

Then  he  asked  me  again  when  he  came  to  me,  and  howe  he  came  to  meand  what  and  howe  longe  he 
talked  with  me,  I  tolde  him  he  came  to  me  aboute  euensong  time  and  that  one  brought  him  vnto  my 
chamber  dore,  whom  I  know  not  and  that  he  tolde  me  he  woulde  go  to  wodstocke  for  some  vencson  to 
make  mery  with  all  this  shroftide,  and  that  he  wolde  haue  borowed  a  hat,  and  a  paire  of  high  shoes,  of  me 
but  I  had  none  such  to  lend  him,  and  then  he  straight  went  his  way  from  me  but  whether  I  know  nat. 

'  It  must  have  been  pleasant  to  Anthony  Kitchin        self  in  Fox's  book,  a  thief  of  old  *tanding. 
or  Dunston,  who  became  Bp.  of  Llandaff  on  36  '  Dr.  London  d.  1543  in  the  Fleet;  haviog  beea 

Mar.  1545  [d.  31  Oct.  1565]  to  have  thus  read  him-        committed  to  that  place  for  perjury. 


62  THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 

All  these  my  sayenges  the  scribS  wrote  in  a  paper  boke.  Then  they  emestly  required  me  to  tell  them 
whether  I  had  conueyed  him,  for  surely  they  saied  I  brought  him  going  some  whether  this  mornynge,  for 
that  they  might  well  perceaiue  by  my  foule  shoes  and  dirty  hosen  that  I  had  trauaild  with  him  the  most  part 
of  this  night,  I  aunswered  plainely  that  I  laye  at  Alborne  Haul  with  sir  Fitziames,  and  that  I  had  good 
witnes  therof  there.  They  asked  me  where  I  was  at  euensonge  I  told  them  at  Friswides,  and  that  I  saw 
first  maister  commissary,  and  then  maister  D[octor].  London  come  thether  at  that  time  vnto  maister 
Deane  of  Frisewides  and  that  I  saw  them  talking  to  gether  in  the  church.  There  D[octor].  London  and 
the  deane  thretned  me  that  if  I  would  not  tell  the  truth  where  I  had  don  him,  or  whether  he  was  gonne,  I 
should  surely  be  sente  vnto  the  tower  of  London  and  there  be  racked,  and  put  into  litle  ease.^  But  maister 
commissary  prayd  me  with  gentle  words  to  tell  him  where  he  was  that  he  might  haue  him 
againe  and  he  woulde  be  my  very  greate  frend  and  deliuer  me  out  of  trouble  straighte  waye, 
I  tolde  him  I  coulde  not  tell  where  hee  was  nor  whether  he  was  be  come.  Thus  did  they 
occupy  and  tosse  me  almost  two  hours  in  the  chappell  sometimes  with  thretninges  and  foulewordes 
and  then  with  faire  wordes  and  faire  promises  flatteringe  me.  Then  was  hee  that  brought  maister 
Garet  vnto  my  chamber  brought  before  me  and  caused  to  declar  what  maister  Garet  saide  vnto 
me  at  his  comminge  to  my  chamber  but  I  saide  plainely  I  harde  him  say  no  such  thinge  for  I  thought 
my  naye  to  be  as  good  as  his  yea,  seing  it  was  to  ridd  and  deliuer  my  godly  brother  out  of  trouble  and 
pearill  of  his  life.  At  the  laste  when  they  could  get  nothing  of  me  wherby  to  hurt  or  accuse  anye 
man  or  to  know  any  thinge  of  that  which  they  sought  they  al  3.  together  brought  me  vp  a  longe  staires  into 
a  great  chamber  ouer  M[aster].  Commissarys  D[octor].  Cot[tiss]ford's  chamber  wherin  stood  and  were  a 
greate  payer  of  very  highe  stockes,  then  IMaister  commissary  asked  me  for  my  purse  and  girdel  toke 
away  my  mony  and  my  knife,  and  then  they  put  both  my  legges  into  them  and  so  locked  me  fast  in  those 
stockes,  in  which  I  satte  my  feete  beinge  almost  as  high  as  my  hed,  and  so  departed  they  :  locking  fast  the 
chamber  dore  I  thinke  vnto  their  abominable  mas,  leuing  me  alone. 

When  al  they  were  gone  then  cam  vnto  my  good  remembrance  the  worthye  sore  warning  and  godly 
declaration  of  that  moste  constant  martir  of  god,  Maister  lohn  clarke,  my  father  in  Christ,  who  wel  nie 
two  yeres  before  yat,  when  I  did  ernestly  desire  him  to  graunt  me  to  be  his  scoler,  and  that  I  might  goo 
with  hym  continuallj' when  and  where  soeuer  hee  should  teach  or  preach  (the  which  he  did  daily)  who  (I 
say)  said  vnto  me  much  after  this  sort.  Dalaber  ye  desire  ye  wot  not  what,  and  that  ye  are  I  feare  me, 
vnable  to  take  vpon  you,  for  though  nowe  my  preachinge  be  swete  and  pleasante  vnto  you,  because  there 
is  yet  no  persecution  layed  on  you  for  it,  but  the  time  will  come,  and  that  peraduenture  shortly,  if  ye  con- 
tinew  to  line  godly  therin  that  god  will  laye  on  you  the  crosse  of  persecution  to  try  you  with  all  whether 
you  canne  as  pure  and  puryfied  gold  abide  the  fire,  or  as  stoble  and  drosse  be  consumed  therwith.  For  the 
holy  ghost  plainly  affirmeth  by  sainte  paule,  quod  omnes  qui  pice  volunt  viicere  in  Christv  lesu,  perse- 
c7itionem  patientur.  Yea  ye  shal  be  called  and  iudged  an  heretike,  ye  shal  be  abhorred  of  the  world, 
your  owne  friendes  and  kinnesfolke  will  foresake  you  and  also  hate  you,  and  shalbe  cast  into  prison  and 
no  man  shall  dare  to  helpe  or  comfort  you,  ye  shalbe  accused  and  brought  before  the  bishoppes  to  your 
reproche  and  shame,  to  the  greate  sorow  of  all  your  faithful!  frendes  and  kinsfolke.  Then  will  ye  wishe 
ye  hadde  neuer  knowen  this  doctrine.  Then  wil  ye  curse  Clark  and  wish  that  ye  hadd  neuer  knowen  him, 
bycause  he  hath  brought  you  to  al  these  troubles  Therefore  rather  then  ye  shoulde  do  this,  leue  of  from 
medlinge  of  this  doctrine,  and  desire  not  to  bee  and  continewe  in  my  company.  At  which  wordes  I  was 
so  greued  that  I  fell  downe  on  my  knees  at  his  feete,  and  with  abundance  of  teares  and  sighes  euen  from  the 
bottome  of  my  harte,  I  ernestly  besought  him,  that,  for  the  tender  mercy  of  god  shewed  vnto  vs  in  our 
Lord  lesu  Christ,  he  would  not  refuse  me,  but  receiue  me  into  his  company  as  I  had  desired,  saieng  that 
I  trusted  verely,  that  he  which  had  begonne  this  in  me  would  not  forsake  me  but  giue  me  grace  to  con- 
tinew  therein  vnto  the  end.  When  he  harde  me  say  so,  he  came  to  me  and  toke  me  vp  in  his  arms,  kissed 
me,  the  teres  tricklinge  downe  from  his  eies  and  sayde  vnto  me  :  The  Lorde  almighty  graimt  you  so  doo, 
and  from  hensforthe  for  euer  take  me  for  your  father,  and  I  will  take  you  for  my  son  in  Christ. 

Now  wer  there  at  that  time  in  oxford  diuerse  graduates  and  scholers  of  sundry  Colledges  and  haules, 
whom  god  had  called  to  the  knowledge  of  his  holy  word,  which  all  resorted  vnto  maister  Clarkes  dispu- 
tations and  lectures  in  diuinity,  at  all  times  as  they  mought:  And  when  they  mighte  not  come  conueniently, 
I  was  by  maister  dark  apointed  to  resorte  vnto  euery  of  them  wekely,  and  to  know  what  doubts  they  had 

'  A  torture  den  in  the  Tower.    . 


f^^^>. 


THE  PERSECUTION 


VGLAND. 


in  any  place  of  the  scriptures,  that  by  me  from  him  they  inighte  haue  the  true  vndcrstanding  of  ye  same 
which  exercise  did  me  most  good  and  profit  to  the  vnderstanding  of  the  holy  scriptures  which  I  most 
desired. 

This  forsaide  forewarning  and  godly  declaration  (I  say)  of  this  most  godly  martir  of  god  'maister 
dark,  coming  then  to  my  remembrance  caused  me  with  decpe  sighcs  to  cryc  vnto  god  from  my  hart  to 
assist  me  with  his  holy  spirite  that  I  mought  be  able  paciently  and  quietly  to  berc  and  suffer  whatsoeucr 
it  shoulde  please  him  of  his  fatherly  loue  to  laye  "on  me  to  his  glory  and  the  comforte  of  my  dearly 
lieloucd  brothern,  whom  I  thought  now  to  be  in  great  fear  and  anguish,  least  I  would  be  an' accuser  of 
them  all.  For  vnto  mc  they  all  were  well  knowcn,  and  all  there  doinges  in  that  matter.  But  god  be 
blessed  I  was  full  bent  neuer  to  accuse  any  of  them,  what  soeuer  shoulde  happen  of  me. 

Before  dinner  maister  Cotisforde  came  vp  to  me  and  requested  me  eamestlye  to  tell  him  where  maister 
Caret  was,  and  if  I  woulde  so  do  be  promised  me  slraightewayes  to  deliuer  me  out  of  prison.  But  I  tolde 
him  I  could  not  tel  where  he  was  nor  more  in  dede  I  could  not.  Then  hee  departed  to  dinner  askinge  me 
if  I  woulde  eate  any  meate.  and  I  told  him  yea  right  gladly,  he  saide  he  would  send  me  some.  ^Vhen 
he  was  gone  his  seruauntes  asked  me  diuerse  questions  which  I  doo  not  now  remember,  and  some  of 
them  spake  me  faire  and  soir.e  thretned  me  calling  me  heretik  and  so  departed  iockinge  the  dore  fast 
vpon  me.  • 


Fox  THEN  adds:  Thus  far  Antony  Dalaber  hath  prosecuted  this  story,  who  before  th£  finishmge 
departed  this  yere  Antto.  1562,  in  the  dioces  of  Salsbury  tlie  residtu  therof  as  we  could  gather  it  of 
ancient  and  credible  persons,  so  Jiaue  we  added  here  vnto  the  same. 

After  this.  Garret  beinge  apprehended  or  taken,  by  mayster  Cole  ye  proctor  or  his  men,  going  west- 
warde  at  a  place  called  Hinksey  a  litle  beyonde  Oxforde,'  and  so  being  broughte  backe  againe,  was  com- 
mitted to  warde,  that  done,  he  was  conuented  before  the  commissary,  Doctor  London  and  Doctor  higdon  deane 
of  Friswides  (now  called  Christs  coUedge)  into  S.  Maries  church  where  they  sitting  in  iudgement,  con 
uicted  him  accordinge  to  their  law  as  an  heretike  (as  they  said)  and  afterward  compelled  him  to  cary  a 
faggot  in  open  procession  from  Sainte  Maries  churche  to  Friswides,  and  Dalaber  likewise  with  him. 
Garret  hauinge  his  redde  hode  on  his  shuldcrs  like  a  maister  of  art,  after  that,  they  were  sent  to  Osney, 
ther  to  be  kept  in  prison  till  farther  order  was  taken. 

Ther  were  suspected  beside,  a  great  noml^r  to  be  infected  with  heresy  as  they  called  it,  for  hauinge 
such  bookes  of  Godes  truth  as  garret  sold  vnto  them.  As  maister  Clarke  which  died  in  his  chamber  and 
could  not  be  suffered  to  receiue  the  Communion,  beinge  in  prysonne  and  saienge  these  words  :  Crede  et 
tnanducasti.  Maister  Sommer,  Maister  Bettes,  Tauemer,  Radley,  with  other  of  F^wides  colledge,  of 
Corpus  Christi  colledge  and  Vdal  and  Dier  with  other  of  Maudlen  coUedge,  one  Eden  [The  i^o  edition 
of  Fox  reads  Master  Somner,  Maister  Bettes,  Tauerner  the  Musicion,  Rodley,  with  other  of  Friswides 
colledge,  of  Corpus  Christi  Colledge,  as  Vdal  and  Diet  with  other,  of  Magdalen  Colledge  one  Eeden, 
p.  1369]  wyth  other  of  Glocester  colledge,  and  two  blacke  monkes  one  of  S.  Austines  of  Canterbury 
named  Langporte,  ye  other  of  Saint  Edmondsbury  monk,  now  yet  lining  and  dean  of  Norwich  nanKd 
lohn  Salesbury,  two  whit[e]  monks  of  Barnard  colledge,  two  chanons  of  Saint  Maries  colleadge,  one  of 
them  named  Robert  Ferrar  afterwarde  BLshop  of  Saint  dauies  [David's]  and  burned  in  Quene  Maries 
time.  These  ii.  cannones  because  they  had  no  place  in  the  vnyuersitye  with  the  other ;  thiy  went  on  the 
contrarye  side  of  the  procession  bare  headed  and  a  bedell  before  them  to  be  knowen  from  the  other. 
Diuers  other  there  were  whose  names  I  cannot  remember  which  were  forced  and  constrained  to  forsake 
their  colleges  and  sought  theire  frendes.  Against  the  procession  time  ther  was  a  greate  fier  made  vpon  the 
toppe  of  Carfaxe  where  into  all  such  as  were  in  the  saide  procession  eyther  conuict  or  suspected  of 
heresye  were  commaunded  in  token  of  repentance  and  renunciation  of  theire  errores,  euery  man  to  cast 
a  boke  into  the  fier  as  they  passed  by.     //.  6o4-€io. 


^  This  is  quite  incorrect.  Garret  eot  as  far  as 
Bedminstcr,  a  mile  beyond  Bristol,  where  he  was 
arrested  on  29  Feb.  1528.  The  papers  rcLntivc  to 
him,  including  his  recantation,  now  in  the  Stale 
Paper  Oliicc.  arc  Driiued  in  TownscnJ's  Kilition  of 


Fox's  Actes,  Vol.  V.  App.  Ed.  184&  Thomas 
Garret,  with  Doctor  Robirt  Barnes  and  William 
Hii:rT>me  the  Vicar  of  Stepney,  were  together 
m.iriyrcd    by    fire    at    Smitnfield    on    30    July. 


64  THE  PERSECUTION  IN  ENGLAND. 

The  unexpected  length  to  which  this  Preface  has  already  extended  forbids 
a  further  pursuit  of  this  part  of  the  subject.  The  Advent  of  the  first  printed 
Testaments  in  England  constitutes  an  important  chapter  in  the  Story  of 
our  Reformation,  and  one  that  has  hardly  as  yet  received  adequate  atten- 
tion. The  fashioning  anew  of  a  people,  as  it  is  a  universal  and  a  gigantic, 
so  must  it  be  a  gradual  Change,  prepared  and  brought  about  by  many 
causes  and  instrumentalities.  Of  these  none  has  been  so  powerful  for  good 
as  an  unfettered  appeal  to  Scripture ;  and  it  was  a  most  merciful  arrange- 
ment of  Divine  Providence  that  when  there  was  a  people  ready  to  receive 
it,  Tyndale  was  raised  up  to  supply  the  printed  Word.  In  so  doing,  he 
sought  to  transfer  the  ultimate  standard  of  appeal  in  faith  and  morals 
from  the  vacillation  and  contradictions  of  human  belief  and  opinion  known 
as  '  The  Church'  to  the  Revelation  of  the  Mind  and  Will  of  the  Trinity,  so 
far  as  that  could  be  ascertained  by  means  of  manuscripts  written  by  in- 
spired men  of  old,  and  transmitted  from  age  to  age  down  to  his  own 
time.  Until  the  peasant  could  possess  and  understand ;  until  he  could 
confidently  appeal  to  an  authority  in  faith  and  morals  which  the  greatest 
scholar  could  not  disavow,  he  was  liable  to  be  beguiled  by  self  in- 
terested jugglery  and  sophistry  of  those  who  pretended  '  to  keep  the  lips 
of  knowledge.'  Nothing  is  more  painful,  nothing  so  unlike  God  who  said 
'  Let  there  be  light,'  than  the  combination  of  the  priestly  learning  of  that 
time  to  keep  the  people  in  gross  ignorance,  merely  for  the  sake  of  plunder 
they  obtained  through  them,  and  the  power  that  through  that  ignorance  they 
were  enabled  to  exercise  over  them.  What  a  Struggle  for  Light  it  was,  we 
have  already  seen  :  and  in  that  fight,  many  in  the  front  rank  on  each  side 
suffered  most  unjust  death  for  their  opinion  and  belief;  so  it  was  left  to 
the  few  Protestant  survivors  and  to  the  second  race  of  Reformers  to  carry 
on  and  complete  the  work. 

In  such  troublous  times  as  these,  with  the  magnificent  self  devotion  that 
we  have  seen,  despite  every  obstacle,  and  through  constant  peril,  was  the 
modem  English  Testament  translated,  first  printed,  and  circulated.  Now 
whoso  will,  may  study  it  without  any  let  or  hindrance.  May  all  who  scan 
this  Fragment  have  the  same  absorbing  interest  and  delight  in  our  modern 
version  as  Tyndale  had,  when,  exiled  in  a  foreign  city,  under  a  sense  of 
the  most  weighty  responsibility  both  to  God  and  man,  he  secretly  corrected 
the  pages  of  which  we  now  present  the  Sun-Portraits. 


TYPOGRAPHICAL  AND  LITERARY  EVIDENCE.  65 

VII.   Typograpliical  and  Literary  Evidence, 

The  foregoing  Story  is  quite  irrespective  of  the  claims  of  the  Text  here 
photo-lithographed  to  be  a  part  of  the  Quarto.  Before  considering  this, 
we  may  give  the  account  of  its  late  discovery,  in  1836. 

Mr.  Thomas  Rodd.  of  Great  Newport  Street,  a  respectable  bookseller  in  London,  having  exchanged  with 
a  friend,  who  did  not  recollect  how  he  came  by  it,  a  quarto  tract  by  CEcoIampadius,  without  any  covering, 
there  "^as  attached  to  it  by  binding  a  portion  in  the  English  language,  black  letter  ;  and  though  it  was 
evidently  the  gospel  of  Matthew,  with  the  prologge  of  fourteen  pages  preceding,  neither  Mr.  Rodd  nor  his 
friend  understood,  at  the  time,  what  it  actually  was.  By  degrees,  however,  this  was  at  last  fully  ascertained. 
'The  accidental  discovery,'  says  Mr.  R.,  'of  the  remarkable  initial  Y,  with  which  the  first  page  of  the  pro- 
logue is  decorated,  in  another  book,  printed  at  Cologne  in  1534,*  first  led  me  to  search  other  books  printed 
at  the  same  place,  and  I  succeeded  in  finding  every  cut  and  letter,  with  the  exception  of  one,  in  other 
books  from  the  same  printing  office,  that  of  Peter  Quentel.'  Again  :  '  I  have  found  the  type  in  which 
this  portion  is  printed,  and  the  cuts  with  which  it  is  decorated,  used  in  other  books  printed  at  Cologne  from 
the  year  1521  to  1540.'  * — C.  Anderson  :  'Annals  of  the  English  Bible,'  i.  62-3 :  Ed.  1845. 

The  Typographical  proof  may  be  conveniently  expressed  in  three  pro- 
positions. 

I.  This  Fragment,  whatever  it  may  be,  was  printed  by  Peter  Quentel  at 
Cologne  bdbre  1526. 

This  is  demonstrated  by 

1,  The  Woodcut  at  /.  i6  of  the  present  lithographed  text. 

1.  This  is  the  work  of  Anton  vo.m  Worms  (Anthony  of  Worms),  an  excellent  engraver  in  wood,  who 
came  to  Cologne  in  or  before  1525,  (as  ap[>ears  by  the  date  of  one  of  his  woodcuts  printed  there,  being 
inscribed  with  that  year,)  and  who  appears  to  have  lived  in  that  city  until  his  death,  about  1538.  Some  of 
his  works  are  regular  engravings  (in  particular  a  large  view  of  the  city  of  Cologne)  ;  others  arc  title  pages, 
and  others  woodcuts.  Of  these  Adam  Bartsch  in  Le  Peintre  Graveur,  viu  488,  Ed.  Vienne,  1808, 
quotes  II ;  but  John  Jacob  Merlo,  in  Kunst  und  Kiinstler  in  Kdln,  quotes  64  ;  of  which  40  of  the  best 
are  e  numerated  in  G.  ^.  Nagler's  Kiinster-Lexicon,  xxii.  91-96,  Ed.  Munich,  1852. 

The  woodcut  is  one  of  four  representing  the  four  evangeUsts,  (three  of  them  with  their  apocalyptic 
figures,  viz.:  Mark  with  a  lion,  Luke  with  a  bull,  John  with  an  eagle,)  sitting  and  writing,  which  four  occur 
in  two  large  works  which  Peter  Quentel  was  finishing  about  the  same  time,  viz. : 

(a)  A  German  Testament  (Emser's  revision  of  Luther's  version,  with  a  commentary),  which  is 
dated  23  August  1529. 

(b)  A  Latin  Bible,  BiMia  integm,  etc.     Ed.  by  Peter  UbcHus,  dated  September  1529. 

They  are  also  said  to  occur  in  an  earlier  edition  of  Ubelius'  Latin  Bible,  printed  by  Quentel  in  1527  ; 
but  1  have  been  unable  to  meet  with  a  copy  of  this  impression. 

3.  Anterior  to  these  three  editions,  the  woodcut  of  Matthewjilone  appears  on  the  title  page,  and  also  iXfol. 
a  of  Rupertus'  /«  Mattharu/n,  etc.,  printed  by  Quentel  in  1526,  already  referred  to  at /.  as.  On  account 
of  its  immense  importance  in  establishing  the  date  and  the  printer  of  this  Fragment,  we  have  added  on  the 
blank  page  at  the  end  of  this  edition  a  facsimile  of  the  lower  part,  including  the  woodcut,  of  this  title  page 
of  the  Commentaries  of  Rupertus  /«  Matthaum,  etc.,  and  De  Glorification*  Trinitatis,  etc.;  which,  as 
Cochlaeus  tells  us,  was  printed  by  Quentel  for  Byrckman. 

Therefore  the  woodcut  belonged  to  and  was  used  in  1526  by  QuenteL 

3.  Of  the  next  point  we  are  able  to  supply  ocular  demonstration.    The  woodcut  as  photo-Uthog^pbedoo 

>  See  next  page.  obtain  from  Mr.  Rodd  all  his  references. 

'  It  is  to  be  regretted  tliat  Mr.  Anderson  did  not 

I 


66  TYPOGRAPHICAL  AND  LITERARY  EVIDENCE. 

the  last  page  of  this  vohime,  used  by  Quentel  in  Rupertus'  In  MattJuejmt,  etc.,  is  cut  down  on  the  outer  side 
and  at  the  bottom ;  so  that  at  the  side  the  pillar  and  a  part  of  the  angel's  wings  are  cut  off;  and  at  the  bottom 
the  feet  of  the  two  pillars  and  a  part  of  the  foreground  are  cut  away.     Compare  it  with  the  previous  one. 

Therefore  the  woodcut  at/.  16  is  anterior  to  that  at  the  end  of  the  book.  Therefore  the  Fragment  was 
printed  before  the  title  page  of /«  Matthcenm,  etc.,  i.e.  before  1526. 

4.  The  motive  for  cutting  down  the  woodcut  appears  to  have  been  to  allow  a  sufficient  amount  of  type 
between  it  and  the  inner  margin  oi /ol.  2  of  In  M attJuetan,  etc.,  where  the  redticed  cut  is  used  as  an 
initial  letter.  Whether  this  be  so  or  not,  it  is  clear  that  woodcvfts  of  the  other  three  evangelists  had  not  yet 
{i.e.  earlier  than  1526)  been  designed.  For  they  are  the  same  width  across  as  the  reduced  cut  of  Matthew ; 
and  have  the  apocalyptic  figures,  which  Matthew  has  not.  It  seems  therefore  highly  probable  that  Anthon 
von  Worms  designed  this  woodcut  expressly  for  Tyndale's  Testament ;  and  that  that  work  being  suddenly 
stopped,  Quentel  made  the  best  use  of  the  block  he  could,  reducing  its  size  as  convenient ;  and  that  after  a 
time  having  occasion  for  them  in  other  works  he  got  Anthon  to  complete  the  series  of  four  to  the  size  thus 
reduced. 

2.  The  Initial  at/.  I. 

I.  There  were  printed  by  various  printers  at  Cologne,  between  1534-40,  and  under  the  editorship  of  A. 
le  Loer,  twenty  folio  volumes,  mostly  unconnected,  of  what  was  intended  as  a  collected  edition  of  the  Works 
of  the  Carthusian  Dionysius  de  Leuwe  de  Ryckel  known  as  the  '  Ecstatic  Doctor.'  One  of  these  volumes 
containing  Commentaries  on  All  tJie  Canonical  Epistles,  tJie  Acts,  and  tJie  Apocalypse  (British  Museum 
Pressmark  1008  e.  8)  was  printed  by  Quentel,  and  is  dated  September  1533. 

On  the  reverse  oi  fol.  72,  at  the  beginning  of  the  Second  Epistle  of  John,  is  found  the  initial  letter 
which  appears  on  /.  i  of  this  Fragment.     That  initial  therefore  belonged  to  and  was  used  by  Quentel. 

3.  Here,  for  want  of  time,  I  must  refer  to  Mr.  Rodd's  statement  as  regards  the  other  initials,  observing 
that  I  have  met  with  the  two — Was  on/.  19,  etc.,  and  A  as  on/.  32  of  the  Text,  etc. — in  Emser's  German 
Testament,  above  referred  to.     A  further  search  would  no  doubt  identify  them  all. 

4.  A  similarity  in  the  style  of  setting  up  the  type  has  already  been  noticed  at/.  22. 

Indubitably  therefore  Quentel  printed  this  Fragment  before  1526; 
and  from  its  contents,  we  know  that  he  must  have  printed  it  for  Tyndale. 

2.  Though — judging  from  what  we  here  possess,  viz.  sigs.  A  to  H — the 
portion  A  to  K  printed  by  Quentel  at  Cologne  would  hardly  have  finished 
the  Gospel  of  Matthew :  yet  this  fragment  is  not  a  portion  of  the  Gospel 
of  Matthew  printed  somewhere  abroad  for  Tyndale  in  1524  or  1525. 

1.  The  first  words  of  Ty^^/r^/isi^i?  contradict  such  an  assumption.  'I  haue  here  translated  .  .  . 
the  newe  Testamente.' 

Again  on  /.  2.  *  After  hit  had  pleasyd  God  to  put  in  my  mynde  |  and  also  to  geue  me  grace  to  translate 
this  forehearced  newe  testament  into  our  englysshe  tonge  /  howesoever  we  have  done  it.'  From  this  it  is 
clear  that  the  translation  of  the  entire  New  Testament  had  been  finished  before  the  beginning  of  The  pro- 
logge  was  written. 

2.  The  list  of  the  Books  of  the  New  Testament  would  have  been  purposeless,  had  only  the  gospel  of 
Matthew  been  intended  to  follow  it. 

3.  The  passage  referred  to  by  Roy  at  (see/.  32)  /.  12  of  Text  proves  Tfie prologge  to  have  belonged  to 
the  New  Testament. 

4.  In  like  manner  the  passages  alluded  to  by  Ridley  (see/,  53)  at//.  10,  12,  and  14  confirm  the  same. 

3.  This  Fragment  being  printed  by  Quentel  before  1526,  and  not  being 
a  part  of  the  Gospel  of  Matthew  printed  earlier  than  that  year,  must  be  a 
portion  of  the  Quarto  with  glosses  referred  to  by  Cochlaeus. 

This  has  already  been  proved.  We  may  however  notice  that  The prologge,  never  reprinted  by  Tyndale, 
forms  the  substance  of  The  Pathway  to  Scripture,  included  among  Tyndale's  Workes,  1573,  by  John  Fox. 


L 


'/i 


DID  TYNDALE  TRANSLATE  FROM  LUTHER f 


67 


Is    THE    QUARTO    A    TRANSLATION    OF    LUTIIER'S    EARLIKR 

VERSION  ? 

An  important  question  yet  remains.  Is  this  a  translation  from  the 
original  Clrcck,  or  from  the  German  of  Luther?  All  translators  of  the 
Scriptures  have  availed  themselves  of  existing  versions  in  other  languages, 
as  helps.  In  this  way  we  think  Tyndale  used  Luther's  version ;  but  we 
must  remit  this  subtle  question  for  resolution  to  abler  hands.  Certainly 
Tyndale  was  competent  to  translate  it  from  the  Greek,  as  his  translation  of 
Isocrates'  Oration  proves,  and  as  the  title  pages  of  his  subsequent  editions  of 
the  New  Testament  claimed  for  him.  He  was  evidently  familiar  with  Latin. 
He  probably  had  mastered  German  by  the  time  he  came  to  Cologne ; 
and  without  doubt  studied  Hebrew  at  Worms  and  Marburg  before  1530, 
when  he  published  the  English  Pentateuch.  Busche's  talk  is  probably 
but  an  exaggeration  of  Tyndale's  linguistic  attainments.  Evidently  there- 
fore he  was  capable  of  an  independent  translation.  His  frequent  reference 
to  *  the  tonge'  can  only  be  to  Greek,  and  he  says,  '  Consyder  howe  that  I 
had  no  man  to  counterfet  :'  see/.  25. 

Whatever  may  be  the  case  as  to  the  Translation,  we  can  judge  of  the 
extent  to  which  Tyndale  incorporated  the  writings  of  Luther  in  The prologge, 
the  marginal  references,  and  the  glosses.  J.  Baynes,  Esq.,  of  the  British 
Museum,  has  kindly  compared  the  two  versions  with  the  following  results. 

1.  Luther  prefixed  to  his  translation  (i*^  Ed.  Sept.  :  and  Ed.  Dec.  1522)  a  short  Vorrhede  or  Preface 
from  which  Tyndale  took  nearly  five  paragraphs— beginning  from  </rtJ  allte  testament  ist  eyn  buck]  darynnen 
Gottis  gesetz,  etc.  down  to  .  .  .  .  mehr  sterien— being  more  than  half  the  Vorrliede  ;  and  has  intro- 
duced it  into  the  frologge  beginning  on  /.  3  with  Tlu  olde  testament  is  a  hake  \  etc.  down  to  shall  never 
more  dye,  at  the  top  of  /.  4.  With  this  exception,  the  prologge  seems  to  have  been  entirely  written  by 
Tyndale,  who  also  furnished  the  four  glosses  found  attached  to  his  quotation  from  Luther. 

2.  The  inner  marginal  references  are  selected,  with  a  few  additions,  from  Luther's  ver  ' 

3.  Some  of  the  glosses  are  entirely  Luther's,  some  (and  these  chiefly  explanations  of  I'.y 
Tyndale's,  and  some  are  identical  in  meaning  but  differently  expressed  from  Luther's,  as  if  c;itn  «<.rc  .1  uu- 
tinct  translation  of  some  earlier  original.  Of  the  92  glosses  in  the  Fragment,  the  following  41  appear  to 
have  been  entirely  supplied  by  Tyndale. 


/.  18.  That  ys  to  saye  by  the 
lesus  b  asmoche  to  saye 
Christe  brjmgeth  god.  where 
/.  19.  lury  is  the  londe 
p.  20.  Rachell  was  buried  not  ferre 
p.  31.  Put  youre  truste  in  goddes 
/.  23.  All  these  dedes  here  rehearsed 
/.  24.  lott.     Is  as  moche  too  saie 

Breakcth  This  do  they  which 


/.  26.  Rewarde./  Ye  shall  not 
p.  27.  Syngle.  The  eye  is  single 
/.  a8.  Fornace.  Men  hccte  there 
/.  30.  Wilt.  Faithe  knowcth  not 
/.  31.  Centurion.  Is  a  capuyne 
/.  34.  The  hcrvest  are  the  people 
/•  35-  Bcyonde  the  see  commcnly 

Fynsshe  That  ys/  ye  shall  nott. 

That  is  to  sey  openly 


I    2 


68 


DID  TYNDALE  TRANSLATE  FROM  LUTHER? 


p.  so.  Peter  in  the  greke 

[This  long  note  is  an  expansion  of  a  short  one  by- 
Luther.] 
/.  51,  Itt  soundeth  jti  greke 

Dedes.     For  the  dedes  \   ' 

p.  52.  Stronge  feyth  requyreth 
p.  54,  Here  all  bynde  and  loose 
p.  57.  Seven  a  clocke  with  vs 
p,  58.  By  this  similitude  may  ye 
/.  59.  Redeme  /  is  to  deliver 

Sonne  of  david.    As  many 
p.  61.  Ihon  taught  the  very  waye 


/.  37.  In  the  name  of  a  prophet 

water.    Compare  dede  too  dede 
p.  38.  Lesse.     That  is  Christe 

Violence  when  the  consciences 

To  \'pbrayde  is  to  cast 
p.  40.  Desolate,   That  ys  wasted 
/.  41.  A  viper  ys  after  the 

Here  may  ye  se 
p.  42.  He  that  hath,  where 
p.  43.  The  seed  ys  sowen 

Tares  and  cockle  are 
p.  47.  Profytt.  Mark  the  leven 
p.  48.  Tradicions  of  men  must  fayle 

The  remaining  glosses  are  either  literal  or  paraphrastic  translations  of  Luther,  or  of  some  earlier  original. 
If  then  the  Quarto  were  annotated  in  this  manner,  about  one  half  of  the  glosses  were  contributed  by 
Tyndale.     Thus  far  at  least  there  is  nothing  to  detract  from  the  genuineness  of  his  work,  as  a  whole. 

Any  one  who  will  compare  our  Authorized  Version  with  this  first  attempt, 
cannot  fail  to  be  surprised  to  find  what  a  large  proportion  of  this  Text  has 
survived  intact  the  ceaseless  tests  of  innumerable  translators;  which  is 
another  corroboration  that  Tyndale  both  went  direct  to  the  Greek  and 
that  he  did  his  work  excellently. 


We  must  now  draw  to  a  close.  What  was  intended  as  a  short  Preface 
has  become  a  small  Book  :  and  yet  the  subject  is  hardly  more  than  begun. 
Every  point  upon  which  we  have  touched  is  capable  of  a  more  exact  defini- 
tion, a  more  ample  illustration.  It  is  indeed  wonderful  that  we  know  so 
much  as  we  do,  considering  the  circumstances  ;  but  it  is  certain  that  there 
is  much  more  that  by  a  patient  search  may  be  recovered.  We  have. 
endeavoured  here  to  adduce  nothing  for  which  there  is  not  adequate,  and, 
as  far  as  possible,  contemporary  authority,  and  we  leave  off  the  inquiry 
feeling  that  we  have  only  just  commenced  it.  Yet  enough  has  been 
adduced  to  show  what  a  great  Story  surrounds  the  first  beginnings  of  our 
printed  Testament.  Will  some  one  become  the  Historian  of  the  English 
Bible  ?  Wherever  he  may  lead  us  in  that  history  we  shall  find  that  the 
Introducers  of  the  Bible  into  our  nation,  as  well  as  the  ceaseless  Correctors 
of  it  since,  have  for  the  most  part  been  interpenetrated  with  an  unfaltering 
love  of  Truth  and  Holiness. 

Hitherto  that  History  has  suffered  much  at  the  hands  of  its  Narrators. 
Fox's  Ecclesiastical  Encyclopaedia  is  very  scanty  in  its  information  respect- 
ing the  early  English  Reformation  down  to  1530.  The  first  Edition  of 
the  AcfeSf  6^c.,  1563,  contains  some  valuable  original  Memoranda,  etc., 
contributed  to  it  by  Eye-Witnesses  :  but  in  the  second  and  later  editions 
Fox,  writing  impersonally  and  violently,  deprived  all  these  contributions 


CONCLUSION.  69 

of  much  of  their  freshness,  beauty  and  graphic  portraiture ;  and  therefore  of 
their  power  to  reproduce  to  us  the  life  and  action  of  those  times.  He  is 
therefore  to  be  read  with  great  caution. 

Of  later  writers,  Mr.  Anderson,  who  commenced  in  his  Annals  our 
popular  literature  on  this  subject,  is  often  as  faulty  as  Fox.  Indeed  there 
has  been  an  unfortunate  fatality  among  some  of  these  later  writers. 
Lewis  voted  Cochla^us'  statement — which  is  a  cardinal  point  in  the  His- 
tory— to  be  entirely  a  fabrication ;  and  Anderson  errs  as  often  as  he  is  right 
One  excuse  for  this  is  the  difficulty  of  the  search.  The  priestly  hunt 
after  the  Testaments  to  -which  we  have  referred  was  altogether  unnoticed 
in  the  general  movement  of  the  time.  The  question  of  the  day  was  the 
King's  Divorce  :  and  the  fate  of  the  captured  Testament  readers,  secretly 
tried,  though  openly  punished,  did  not — in  that  age  of  violent  deaths — 
attract  universal  attention.  So  the  full  history  of  that  of  which  we  have 
here  given  a  sketch  is  to  be  found  in  the  Bishops'  Registers  and  other 
such  recondite  sources. 

Of  the  fruits  of  the  English  Scriptures  who  may  sufficiently  speak? 
One  great  tangible  result  has  been  the  ennobling  and  perpetual  eleva- 
ting of  the  English  character.  Had  the  bishops  stamped  out  the  Bible, 
England  would  have  been  as  Italy  and  Spain  were,  and  much  of  the 
world's  history  would  have  been  differently  written.  Hence  the  story  of 
the  English  Bible  is  for  ever  interwoven  with  the  histoty  of  England  and  of 
the  United  States.  The  free  Word  of  God  has  brought  to  us  freedom  of 
mind,  of  soul,  and  of  estate ;  and  we  in  this,  as  in  so  many  other  things, 
now  inherit,  without  even  a  passing  thought,  principles  and  privileges 
which  our  forefathers  oftentimes  purchased  with  their  lives.  May  we  in 
like  manner  be  found  faithful  to  all  that  is  true  and  right  in  our  day  and 
generation,  and  hand  down  intact  to  our  children  the  munificent  gifts 
which  we  have  received,  for  nothing,  from  our  ancestors. 

WTiat  shall  we  say  of  the  illustrious  Translator?  Strange  alchemy !  by 
transmuting  the  thought  of  one  language  into  the  expression  of  another  to 
free  a  people  from  ignorance,  priestcraft,  mental  and  spiritual  serfdom.  Yet 
by  the  grace  of  God  so  it  was.  Tyndale  saw  his  life's  work  accomplished. 
Ere  he  was  taken  away,  the  English  ploughboy  came  to  know  the  Scriptures. 
He  was  preeminently  a  large  minded  and  lofty  spirited  man.  He  had  great 
mental  capacity,  but  a  greater  moral  purpose.  Ceaselessly  for  twelve  years, 
at  the  least,  he  laboured  at  his  great  work  ;  yet,  so  to  speak,  in  secret : 
which  is  one  reason  for  his  not  having  been  adequately  appreciated  by 
posterity.     For  example,  he  was  a  far  greater  man  every  way  than  Latimer, 


70  CONCLUSION. 

Thomas  Cromwell,  or  even  More,  though  not  possessing  so  bright  a  wit  as 
he  had  :  yet  perhaps  he  has  not  been  so  much  honoured  as  they.  Another 
reason  of  this  is,  that  in  translations  the  less  of  the  translator  the  better ; 
so  that  he  was  lost  in  his  works,  his  controversial  writings  being  quite  byplay 
to  his  effort  in  translating.  Yet  even  in  controversy  he  wrote  with  remark- 
able strength  and  clearness.  All  his  work  was  done  in  exile ;  Henry's 
agents  met  him  as  it  were  by  stealth,  and  tried  to  cajole  him  to  come  into 
England.  The  bishops — like  Giant  Pope,  in  Bunyan's  Pilgrini^s  Progress 
— bit  their  nails  because  they  could  not  get  hold  of  him.  So  at  length  he 
was,  by  the  treachery  of  that  arch-Judas  Philips,  betrayed  ;  and  then,  after 
twelve  months  of  imprisonment  at  Vilvorde,  his  last  prayer,  previous  to 
strangulation,  was  'Lord  !  Open  the  King  of  England's  eyes.' 

Much  more  will  some  day  be  known  of  him.  Among  the  archives  of 
Belgium  may  yet  be  found  the  papers  seized  in  his  house  at  Antwerp  by  the 
Emperor's  Attorney  when  he  was  captured.  Among  the  records  of  the 
German  Diet  may  yet  be  obtained  the  Emperor's  decree  ordering  his 
execution.  And  among  some  EngUsh  dust  covered  collection  may  still  be 
found  such  of  his  manuscripts  as  passing  into  the  hands  of  his  Timothy — 
John  Rogers — came  over  into  England.  Enough  is  already  ascertained  to 
stimulate  in  us  an  unceasing  search  for  every  trace  of  him  and  an  increas- 
ing study  of  his  works ;  and  what  we  already  know  of  his  nature  and 
character,  of  his  work  and  purpose,  fully  justifies  our  for  ever  revering  him 
as  the  great  Apostle  of  our  early  Reformation. 


A  word  or  two  as  to  the  present  lithographed  Text. 

In  the  original,  as  might  naturally  be  anticipated,  some  of  the  lines  and 
letters  are  faded  and  broken.  With  the  view  of  facilitating  their  perusal, 
all  these  rotten  letters  have  been  made  perfect,  and  the  Text  printed  black 
and  sharp.  After  which  the  Fragment  was  again  read  with  the  original,  so 
as  to  ensure  absolute  accuracy. 

It  may  help  those  unfamiliar  with  black  letter  to  state  that  a  dash  over 
a  letter  indicates  that  m  or  ;/  are  to  be  added  :  as  tepte  means  tewpte,  wet 
we«t.  Also  that  the  flourish  at  the  end  of  some  words  is  the  plural  es,  as 
whaall^j"  (whales),  spirit^i"  (spirits),  etc. 

There  are  numerous  misprints  in  the  text,  characteristic  of  the  great 
difficulties  under  which  it  was  produced,  being  secretly  composed  by 
the  Cologne  compositors  under  great  and  constant  fear  of  detection. 

FINIS     CORONAT    OPUS. 
LAUS    DEO. 


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Cfct.jJtoIoggt. 


1  Ibaut  to  «attfldtfi> 

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tcnberl)?  bcfollc^ incTbhll  )  thence 

^vfrin0c/confolado^/«n^  folae: 
NBjcbo:tyti£jc  infbnrivanb  befcc^)m^e 
tbofctb^it  Aff  bemr  fcne  in  tbcton^f 
tben  ^  /  a^^  tbat  b^vc  ^ro-  ^yfif  of 
£|racc  to  interpret  tbc  fence  of  rbe  jer^ 
iprurc  /ant>  mean5>n0c  ofr^e  fpyiu^ 
re/rben  j>/rocon(ft>u  an^  poftl>:c  my 
labomc  /  atib  that  with  tbe  fpytitc 
of  mefenca.  2(nt)  vf  tbcy  pcrce)?rc  in  ert)^  places  rl^arr  b<ivc 
not  artayne^  tbe  very  fence  of  tb«  ton^e  /  oi  meanyn^e  of 
tbe  fmpture  /  ot  b<xue  nor  ^ercn  rben(jbtcn0li?(Tbe  VDo:^e/ 
rbattbe)?purtorberebfin^froamcnt>fit/rememb:)rn0efb4r(^ 
f6tbere^lKricro  ^co.  ifoitpeb<xrenotrece)?re^tbc£fjr(lf  of^cb 
fc:  oiirejefue^onlj^/oi  fo:tob^^^rbem:burfo:robe(?ou?crb«^1 
t>nfo  the  bononnn^te  of  ^ot*  an^  cbnfl/an^  e^j^fyin^e  of  tb^  con^ 
^rcgacim  /wd^id)i&tl)'i  b^'^yofd^ti^, 

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rbatotbcrrbult»ej>mA^ion/tbcnt|>atyfbuI&cu'bearcerbcm. 
ino:eot>ery  fuppofet)  yt  fuperflnoit^/foitrbo  refobf^^n^e  to 
aretrbr  ^5^0bt  ^b"l^^  be  fbctre^  to  tbcm  rb^t  wfti^c  m  ^erc^J 
ned/ wbcrcrbeycftnnorbut  ftcmbk/Ant>tvh€Utoftcmbt€  y^^ 
rbe^aun^er  of  eternaflrt)ammacion  /  otbcr  fot>efpv^b^fufF 
tb^thcwoibunvye  cnj^man  (ivfp^^^i  nott  ^ie  biorber)  fo 
nfi-cflTarr  a  tb»n^e/  orfobeMcnt  m«M>e  foaffvimc  th^t  (joot) 
i^fb^ nAtlJraff'caufcof)rIleS^/an^^crFne^ ro proce>e  oufe  of 
fy^bt  /  a^^  rbat  Ij?in^e  f  bul^e  be  ^roun^e^  in  tron^b  arO 
cf r^^rie  /  &nt>  notr  ratb^  cfenc  conh-arj^  /  rbat  kSpt  ^c(h•c  <? 
ycrb>ercFne^/anl>  vf ritie  reprorctb  a^fmanner  fringe. 


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ucmc0r«cctotran(Iafctl)i6  foreref)carcct)  nexoc  ufiamcntin^ 
to  cure  cn0lyfff)c ton^fc/^otD  cfoeucrtrc  !)aue  bone  it .  3 fuppo^ 
ffb  ^  rcr)^  neccffar^  to  ptitycu  in  re ni cm bt(iu»cc  of  ccitAync 
po>>n^  /wi^id)  arc;tl)at);^c  wcffVnberftonbe  w  j)at  t^tfc  wotb-f 
mconc.Cl^^colbercflamcm.irS'lbe  nciaoeteflamer.  CL^N  ^^^^ 
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tl)ccmti^at\xi^id)bckngnhtoti)i  oti^€t  /  am>  mah  of  <r^:t(^ 
^o(c6  /  oftbe^ofpef  t!)ci£fttrc  j  t>e(pife0r<iccanbrobbe 

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t!)ebebe0of  t!)em  wl>icb  fuIfifftl)cm/anboftj>cm  alfo  wf)icl)  ful 
fifftbemnort. 
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^enewctc  myfcdof0o^/anbt^ebebedoftl)emir^id>b€kuct5emoa  beU^ 

itamcnt         nct^emnott. 

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vt  0la^  /  anb  mafctj)  ^ym fy n£(c  / txkuna  atib i^epc  fo: ioye. Ze 
vol>cn  i0avybf)abf)?^b(5olj?at6  tjje^caot /cam  0labtybm0f 
wito  tj)c  ict»e6/tf>at  tl)€ir  feaifuffanb  rrucffcnemy  tt>ae  (la^ie/ 
anbt|>ej?bd)^vcrc^  outeof  afFbaiin0cr:fo:  glabnee  were  of/rjje)? 
jon0c/ba«n<c&/anbwcr  %fuffl3n  lyfe  manner  ie  tf)e  epange^ 
lion  of  dob  Cwi>td>  tpe  ca^0ofpe^/anbtl)e  netre  toflouietDioyj? 
fiifft)?bm0f /anb  a^  fome  (ay*c:n  0c6b  [>earin0  pubfiflF  !)e^  b)>  tf?e 
opoftlcd  t^:ou0!)  onte  aff'rbcn^o:l^^/of  (Tb^ifTtJje  n0^t  ©aryb 
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Tiff/an&orer  cumc  t()em»tt)f)ercby  aff'mct{)at  were  in  15d^a0^ 
to  frnne/woflbeb  trirf)  ^et!>e/ouercu  of tl)e  beriff/are  witj)  outc 
t^ere  atme  merittf  oibefcrt>in0^  /lofcb  /  in(?y  fye^/  reporeb  to^ 
l)rfr/anb  faveb/6tou0!)tto  Pibertie  /ant  rccondleb  wto  t^e  fo^ 
vour of  0ob  /anb  fctt at  one  witf)  f)ym  a^ajme :  to^td>  tyt>in0f 
ad  mori)^  ad  beft  vc/fantt  ptayfc  M'b  t^anch  0ob/are  ^Ca^/fyn^ 

xx>hi  tht  ctm  ^^  <i"bbattnre  foi  ioyc» 

Sonrdcal"  C^!)«dcvaiigefionor0ofpeffcrl)af >stofaye/fud>e  io^^fpff'  ty<^ 

1(0  4  tdUmet  btn0t)fai>  caSeb  t Jk  newe  tefiament .    Becanfe  tl)at  ae  a  man 


wbcn  bef  i)Affb)?e  Apojmrcrh  \}ie  0co^^f  to  be  be aft<  AnJ)  ^i(ln^ 
buK\>Ciftvr  b1?^^crl?c  ftmonge  rJ)CTn  wbid?  be  namal)  tobe 
bie  b«)>*^^-^>^^"ro^bri(l  before  bi6^ctJ>ccomm«un^e^an^ 
appo)?ntc^  t\)cu  fud)e  cr  An0c  hcn/^o(pcff7cr  ty^)?n0ff  j)ulbc  be 
^ecfare^  rb:ou0l)  oiitc  ofi'tbe  xrod^c/anb  r!>€re  wit  j)  to  ^etic  m 
to  <ifftf)at  bcfcuc  affbie  goo^^f /t|)ar  ie  to  fa;^e/hi^  lyfe/  irlKre 
wirf)  b"^fw'aft>lr€^  a^t)'^€X)oure^rp^etbe:bi^rigbt<tX'e^flce/ 
trbere  with  be  bart)?fbc^  lyrme:  j>i6  (alradon/wbcre  witb  b^  ^ 
vercom  eteriiaft  ^amandon^t^otjpe  can  tb^  twetcl>eb  manCri>«  t 
i&  xrmppcb  in  (ynnt/ant>  ie  inbaun^cr  to  ^et  j)e  an^  beff)  b^^^**^ 
nomoareioyufi  a  tb1rn0cAbcnflld>cgla^an^  ccmfottubfc  ty/ 
^l^3f /of  (rj>:ifJ.©o  f  b  At  be  cannot  but  be  ^to  An^  loiigb  fr^"^ 
tbelotre  bottom  of  bt^birr/if  be  bfleve  fbar  ti)(ty^yn^  ore 
trctre. 

IT  Jof?ren0tb  fncl>  fejetbe  wttb  off/^ob  ptomKe5  tj>id  bi«  ^^^^ 
^efion  in  tbcolbeteflamentb)rtf>epiopbettf  Cae  patif(aftl)  in 
tbefin(td>aptcrwitotbe rontons),  ^owetb«b<f«>«6  <i>ofcn 
cute  to  p^c<ul>e  0obtvf  ei?an0el!cn/t»4>icb  b«  befo«  hc^^P^^y^ 
fet)brtbeptopb«trf  in  tbebolyfcripturf  tbattreAteofbrdfonne 
VDd)id>  troa  bo:ne  of tbe  fce^  of^«t?)^t)  ..3rttbetb^^  cb^ptcr  of 
^enncfie/^ob  faitb  tot^c  fcrpcnt;y  rp)?ffputbatreb  bittrene  tbe 
an>  tbe  woman  /  bitwene  t\>y  fcebe  anb  b^rfee^e  /  tb^tfilfe 
(ccl>e  fbAfirtre<it>  tl)y  beebvnber  fote^^b^P  «d  ^«^  womane  fee^ 
^e  /  be  it  16  tbAt  batb  tro^en  wi^er  fote  tbe  bevyfff  b^^^  /  ^b^* 
16  to  (aye  fynnc/betbe/  bcff?  «n^  «ff  bi^  power.  5o:  witb  c  ut€ 
tbi^leebfcan  uo  man  avoybef^rnne/betbe/beffanb  cuerloflyn^ 
^ebanocion. 

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fboftall  t\>i^cncrciti66  of  tbe  ertbe  bebftffcb.(rb«(^i«  tbat  (ee^ 
^e  ofabiabamfaytb  fajmrtpanFint|)e  tbryMdtbc0alatbran0 
-J?e  bad)  blcflcb  aPtbe woifbe  tbrou0b  th  0ofpf ^^  S<^r wbere 
(Tb^'Tf  J6  nct/tbcrc  remainerb  tbeairfle  tbat  fefon  oM  Od  foone 
ae  b«  b^b  fr"  neb/So  t^atti^cy  are  in  bondage  lm^er  tj>e^oml 
naciort  of  f)^nnc/^ctbe/an^  b^^^  !2(0aj?n(lctbi6  cwrfTe  blef?etb 
nowe  tbe  ^ofpcffaa tb e  worlbe/in  afmochc  a&  it cryctb  openly?/ 
wbo  (o  ever  belcxKtb  on  tbe fee^e  opbraba fbalbe  b!e(|eb/tl)at 
i5/be  fboibebeljnpere^  frd  fjmne/^etbe  anb  b*ffi'^"^*^^^"^^ 
fortb  continue  r^ewe^/Ifrrin^e/anb  fave^  for  euer/  o^  ^bnf^ 

2^      (4 


never  more  ^^c. 

£^belawe(faitbtbe^rfpeff*of3!?onmtl)e  firfi  cljXfUr)tx>a& 

given  be  Vnofcetbtir  ^rar  e  a^^  vcritii  be  3e(u6  (fj^^iTl.  ^be  ia^ 

tpe(t»bofemimffer)>6mofc6)  tvae  geventobryn^e  v^rnrotbe 

frtowk^eof  ourej^lre^/tb^rwe  m^^j^ttl^ereb^^felc  ant>  per^ 

cert-vetcbAtweareofnature,  Cbelatrc  con>em^ct^)V6an^  a^ 

0^U'e^e^e&/an^^6calle^cfpAu{(mt:|)etbl)^t>  c^ap, ofti)e  fecon^ 

pijlle rnto  t^e corrimbians)  ri?e mj?n)?(lradon of t>etl)e,  Sor  it 

03?^b  oure  confciencee  ^nb  ^ripetb  x>^  to  be  jperacion/in  a^  mo^ 

cl)ea$itrequ)!>rrtl)ofp$rbartrl?ycb  isvnpoflfible  fcire  tolxx). 

3i;requ^etb  ofp^tbebebf  of  An  trbcle/man.  3trequ)fret(?  per^^ 

fecK  rove  from  rl)elcwe  bottome  anbj^oimbe  of  tJ)cbert/A0 

tt>effm<xfftbm^f  Trl>ycl)tre  fu(f re/<i$  in  tbo  tljin^f  w^^cl;  we 

b»,But  faict  3bon  (in  t|)e  f<ime  plAce)^rAce  mt>  vcritU  is  0c^ 

x>in  v&m c^rifl.  So tij At  wfcen  tbe latre  l;Atl; pA (feb  vppcn  ve/ 

anbcd^emneb  t>atobetb(wb)^cbt^i)i6n<Jmre  toboo)rJ>cnl)Are 

tvein  (fbrirtdr^ee/t^^Atistofaj^efaroure/  prom^f€Oofl)?fe/of 

mercy /of  person  frely  by  tbe  meritee  o  fiTbrifl/Anb  in  (Tijrif!  l)a^ 

p^weveriticAnt>troutbe/intbAt£jot>  fnlfillirb  ftff tie  promyfes 

to  tJ^Jt^At  beleve^tr^erfore  ie  tbe^ofpell  tbe  miniflrAf  ion  of  ly  fe. 

pAttl  cAlict!>  |)it/m  t^i  foreref)eArcct5  plAce  of  tbe  fecot»  cb  Ap^to 

tbecor,t|^emyniflrAcion  of  tbe  fpynte/Anb  of  ri0btetrefne6,3n 

tbt  ^o^eUvo^mxvc  belewet^epromyfe^/wereceAtetbe  fpyrite 

0  f  lyfe  /  ant)  are  iufiifictf  in  tl^eblout)  of  (ri;nTt  from  A^tbm^f 

i»j)ere  oft^e  lAwccon^emneb  ve*  ^f  ijjrifl  itie  written  in  t^e 

forerel^eArreb  fir(if^Apterof3{)o:^bi^i6{?eof  n?i>ofe  Aboun= 

^Aimce  /  or  fuflfned  /  aatcc  bAue  rec  c  At?eb  /  ^Ace  fvr  $(rAce  /or 

fAvoure  fot  fixvoure*  CbAt  is  to  fAy  e  /for  tbe  fat)Oure  tbAt  ^ob 

I;Atl)  to  bid  fonne  (Tbri^/be  det?et|)  tnto  to^ljie  favour /Anb 

^b  wiII/A6  A  fAtfjer  tobiefonnee.  2(d  Affirnml;  PauI  (ayingc: 

wb^ch  lorcb  vein  bis beloreb  before  tbccrcAtion  of  t^et»c:f^ 

be.  Jot  tbelovet^At  ^ob  bAt!)to(rbri(?/belovetb  ve/Anbnot  for 

cure Awne  faitf.  CbriflidmAbcIcrbe  over  Aff^Anb  i^cAft*eb  in 

fcripturejiobbf  mercy  f?olex»^ofoever  Pyetbto  Chrifi/can  m^ 

tbcr  beAte  nor  receave  of  dob  eny  otbertbin^^  fAve  mercy* 

C3"  tbeolbe  teflament  Are  mAny  promyfca/tvbycb  Are  notbin^ 

jjeebbut  t^t  evAngelion  or  ^ofpell/  tofave  t^ofe  t|?At  beleveb 


t^cm  I  from  the  ven^auncr  cft^e  lawc.  3nt>  m  thi  ^ixct  teflon 
mcntie  oftc  mc'^^  minoonofrhf  lawiVJOfcn^cmthcm/t»^rcl') 
belcrcnoft  rbc  prcmj^fc^,  iTTcrccucr  the  Uwc  An^  ^cfpclT 
ffiAi^e  ncvcrt>efq?crafc:forfbc  ^cfpeff'an^prcmffc^  f<rrc  but 
fbrtro^blc^  confdcnrf  wb^cb  arbrcu0!?t  to  befpcradcn  an^ 
felcrbep^rne^of  bcff*ant>t>crbc  rn^o-t^clawc/an^)  are  incap^ 
tixxtk  an^  bon^a^i^  rnticr  tbc  kt»e.  3n  aff  my^cl>ty  mu^ 
(Ic  b^vetbe  Utt?c  before  me  to  concern  mym  rnperfectned. 
Joratf  tbatyt>oo  (be  ^mvix  fo  perfecte)  ie  j^et^amnftble  f^n^ 
ne/wben  bit  is  cortiparetJ  to  tbelawe/wbycb  requrivtbtt)e 
0^oun^e  an^  bottoom  of m^ne  j>crt.  3  mufletl)ereforc  bare  o\^ 
wftjrestbclawe  in  mj»  figrbt/tbat^mAye  be  meNrnt^c  fpj^ri- 
te/an>0fre^o&  at^t{^eUu^can^pra^fe/afcrvbin^cto  bym  off 
n^btcwcfncd/anl)  to  my  (jrlfc  aff'r^^^bt^tre|he^4n^  frniie. 
3  mufle  alfo  b<irr  tbe  proitiy fee  before  myne  ey^ee/  tbAtyt>f^ 
ffeerenott/  in  trbrcb  pro mvfeerfc  tbe  mercy  /  f^roure/  all^ 
^00^  iryff'of  ^ot^  opon  me  in  tbe  bioul)  of  l>ie  fonne  (Tbnft/ 
wbf cb  b Atb  ma^«  fatiefaction  for  myne  rnperfeetne^/an^  ful^ 
filled  forme/tbaf  t»bVf  1^  V  coubcnott^oo, 
C^^remAyeyepcrcearc  tbat  ttro  manner  of  people  Are  (ore 
^eceavetJ.^irftetbevtrbycbiuftifietbcmfilfe  tritb  ontewAr&t 
^(tiflin  tl;attbci?  AbfrAyne  omwArl^ly  from  tb  at  trbycb  tbelA;= 
we  forblbt>etb/  an>  t^o?  outtrArMy  tbat  tp|?ycb  tbekvrecom^ 
maun^erb.  2ibejf*fompAre tbem  fclre^to  open (>tttter& an"b in 
n^ptat  of  tbem  iuflifie  tbem  feiues  cont)cmnyn^«  the  openfyn^ 
ncre.Ocrfcnofrbotrc  tbe  latrcreqnmtb  lore  from  rbebor^:^ 
tomoftbcbe^t.3ftbcy^y^tbeytrol^£^ottcon^e^etbcrenf0iJ- 
bour5,ilore  (jvbetj)  t|)e  multitude  of  frnnee  /  faitb  faynct peter 
in \)\e ffrft piftle,  Jor  ir l;om  y  lore  from  the ^epe  bottom  An^ 
^rcun^c  of mync  bert/!>ym  cont)em  y  nott/netljerrccFe/jie^  ^yt)^ 
ne$/but  fuflfre  bie  treafnce  An^  inprmytie  /  A6  Amotjjer  tbe 
traFnc^  of  ber  fonne  /  rntift  be^otre  rppein  to  aperferte  ni4, 
C^Tbofcaifo  Are^eceA^c?trl?vcbmtboufcAfffeAre  of^o^^ere 
tijcmfdreernto  Aff'mancrricc£3.tritb  fuff'fo(cnr/An&fuft*t)eler^ 
tano/barin^eno refpeae  to  tbe  lAtre  of  ^o^Crn^er  trljofe  r?^«s: 
aunce  r!)ci?  arelocFe^  rp  in  rAptiritic)butfAve;£fo^  i^  mcrd^iff 
an^cbnfl^ye^for^6/(uppofin0ctbAtfucbc^rcmy^0fAlI^rma 
^mdcici5t^AtfAytl)wbyc^i6fo0reat!^come>e5>ii)ol/fmptiire. 


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0e  oft j>er« a WrtC nature/  anb  id  nott  gfeucn  tj)cm  of  tpe  fp^^rire 
ofgjob»2'rei»cf<v)rtj)idC<*dfa)?t(>|:!)eapo(llcpauDtj)e  gyftc  of 
^ob  aiib  16  0cxjcrt  tojyner^  itfter  t:bc(aroe(>«r!)  paffeb  «poiui)em 
4n&  l)*t^  b:ou0f)t  t^crecortfJicncf  rnrot^e  t)jym  of  t>efperaci^ 
Ott/Af  lb  fo:ot»e6  of  ^effl 

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jjavt  bdcctocion  in  tl^tiatoe CnotttDit^flonbtnigtcr^attljcy  can 
nott  fufffiff*  it  /  fo r t !)crc weaFnce^anb  t() ej^  a  b^orrc  tp^ot  foe ^ 
vertj>e  lawe  foibj^bbetj)  /rbou^b  t^ej;  cannott  aror^eit.  linb 
rl)ere  create  forowc ie/ btcauft ti>t^  cMnot  fulfiff*  t!>e  trittof 
^ob  in  t{)e  lan)e/aubtf)cfpy?itc  r()ati6  in  t!)em  crj^ctl)  to  ffoX> 
n)^^f>tanb  bare  for  ftrm^i}  ant>  fjelppc  cort^  tearcd  Qae  faytb 
Paul)  tbai  cannot  be  ejtpreflfcbwitj)  tongje. 
2liiifticiarie  £;(^()e fivfic/ti^at idto fa)?ea  iufticiane /u)l)ic!>  mftifyetj) |)ym 
filfe  toitf)  !>id  outwarbe  bebf /c5(entet  j)  nott  to  tjje  latre  in  war;: 
i>e/netber!)atj)  belectacion  tberein/j?e/l)etc>oIbc rather  t^atno 
fitc^e  latoe  toere.So  iu(f  iftetf)  !)e  nott  0ob/but  ^atctj)  bj^m  ae  a 
tjjrat/nctbcr  caret!)  ^efbr  tbe  prom)?fe6/  buttDiffwttb  b*^  awne 
fh'e^t{>befa\?eour  ofS))?mfilffe:now)?fe  £|Io2ifyetb|)e0Ob/tf)o^ 

a  r  nf  t»  U     "^^  ^^  '"^'"^  outtoorbe  to  two. 

min  Ci(>^  fcconbc/  tjjat  ie  to  faj^c  t^c  fenfctrcfFperfone/  ae  a  vohip^ 

teoueftr^me/rtet^^rfenrctl)  ^obin  ^isfrtwe/netbcridtbanfFuff' 
to  t>ym  forbid  prom)?fe6  anb  m(rcy/xo^icl}  idfctt  fo:tf>  m  (r!):i(t 

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td  ri^b^^^  <^b  lu jle /  tipfjtcb id autot of tbe  latre /  be  bclcrct^ 
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war^f  (bctre  never  fo  )>on0c)  yfcccaftoti  be  0epcn/fot  cure  n4 
na^Jreieto^cof)^ne/«^i^tl>enaturcofaferpemtc  fiyn^c  2Jrtt) 
ae  a  ferpenr  vet  i?o^c/ot  )^ett  vnb:ou0bt  fo:tj)e  i6fnft*of  popfon/ 
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^ercn)  butt  Mjm^e  f<Nit  j)e  tbc  fretitce  t!>cre  of♦2Jn^  ae  an  cMKr/ 
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t)Ofie  /  bur  fo%  tt>e  porfbn  t^t  id  m  it  (tn^  hurt  whid}  it  CAnnctt 
but  Do?)So  Are  tt»e  p*ltc^  of  jjo^  foi  t^tnatureffpoyfon  n>^ic^ 
16  conccAx><t>  an^  botne  wirl>  pe/befote  xrc  bco  en^  outttar^e  y^ 
vcSlZn^  aeti)c  yxKU/wi^id}  a  vcniimoua  u)o^meboetf)/niaFetj) 
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re^octb  it  ^xK^Tanb  po>^tietb*^nb  ad  tljc  fhite  mahti^  net  tj)e 
tree  j^poff :  but  because  ttiean  eryfftree/tberfwe  ln)?rt^et()  tf 
fott^  eT>)^frute/t3ob^n  t()e  (eafcn  cf frute  ie  •  lExKn  fo  t)oo  notr 
cure  eD^be^f  maFe  re  €v^6t:  but  becaufe  tbar  of  nature  rvt 
are  ew^/t^crfbte  tuc  botl)c t^ynh  anX>  hoo  cvy&'f  anh  are  rn^ 
i)er  pen^eaurtce/w^er  tbc  latre/ccnricte  tcttima6tt>amnaci6n 
by  tJK  latDe/anb  arc  contrary  to  tbc  tpiffof  0ob  in  all  ourc  xxtyS"/ 
mb  in  afftl^yn^  confent  to  t!>e  t»j^ff*of  t!>c  fenbc, 
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^bam  tbc^ounbe  of  aff  cP5J&/anb  0raff€t>  m  e  l)«fl  t  j>c  rote  of 
aff*0oc>^^e6. 3n  ^bufi  0ob  lorcb  ve  J)i5  elcctc  anb  ct>ofen/  befo  tc 
tbexx?o:Ibe  bc^a/anb  re(m»cb  x>6  vnto  tbc  htottie^eofbiiS  jbn^ 
ne  anb  of  1)^6  bol)?  gfofpeff/' anb  w\}m  tbc  gofpeil  i5  puad^b 
tor6l>e  openetb  ourc  bcrttf /onb  ^cioct^od  gfracc  tobcUve 
anb  puttetb  tbc  fpiritc  ofCT^uft  in  v&/  anb  trc  fnowcl)iiJ 
rtic  40  oure  fat[)cr  maoflmcrq^foS^  /  Mb  confent  to  tbc  lo^ 
i»c  /  anb  love  it  mxrarbl;^  in  oure  bcrt  /  aiib  bcfjnre  to  folfy&'it/ 
anb  foioxre  becaufe  t»c  cannot/t»birf?  upiff  (  fjmne  tx>c  of  fra^^U 
tiencpcr  fo  mod)e)iefnfpcient  tiff  mote  frrengtb  bt^ccive/tbe 
bloubof  (Tbuft  batb  mci:t>cfatiffacticn  fo:  tberefrcrijc  Woub  of 
€b^ifi  barb  obtcymb  ali  tbi^f  fci  peof  0ob.(rbnPi6  oure  fatif:= 
fa<tton/rcbemcr/oelvrerer/fat>cour  from  v<ngtCLunc<ianbwt^ 
atl)»(DJ)fcruc  ani>  mah  intt^  pijlle^  ofPaiil/«n^P<tcr/ anb 

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^anabdlimpcrfccme^,  tloweie  faitb  rn^ci*  tj^e  p:oin)^fei?/ 
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foexfcvie  contcfnc^mtbe  ptomt^fe^» 

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all  are  rtotbrjje  in  t!>e  fi^bf  of  0O^♦d;ere  10  mI)?Fe  maner  tbe  in^ 
(liffi^cof  ceremortcd/fomcj^ma^td  tbemrberecnr  febe^/fo^ 
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perfort0^r^rbu0an^  tl)u&/a,ni>thc^wcrtbolymi/tbirfou  yfy 
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monies w^icb^o^  ^avernro  rbem/norfojromfrifie:burro>e^ 
fcribeant>pa>^nr  iTbtif^i^nro  rbem/ofwfeid^iewe^refrifietbpaul 
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raiife  i^rereljj/rbatejrceprea  mancofle  awa)?el)i^at»ne)?ma0i 
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vcrtue  an^  power  0  ftbt  blouT)  0  f (T  b  Jifl.  2^bere  10  tije  ri^l>retvef^ 
nc0  ofwoi?f  (a0)^(ai>e  before)  w^Stbcbertie  a  wa)?e/rber  fek 
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fo  farfo:tl?  bleffediniTbtifl/tbar  rlx)^  |>ii^red  an^  tljutfied  af<f 
ter  \uV9^\x\  l>a>tbt>fi>u:(Ie/bec5fentedtotbelatt>eofigrod/tl)at 
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trary  to  tf)e/«fleanddefire  of  l>i6mynde/  an^tl)erfo:c  cr^i"^ 
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fcitbnofb'ngebefotefjymbut  prffcntbetbe/an^  tbcncdmttb 

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wv(cwi)tn  gojb^f  lawe  bfltbbrougbffbcfrnncrinto  Fnoirlf:= 
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unro  I;rm  the wratb  anb  pen^caunce  of 0obAb«"  cometb  0»b 
t^'bingf /rl^e  ifcra^clicn  fbcwctb  vmo  l)imrj)e  promj^fce  of£jot> 
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cc/fo  fcArfxiSanb  fo  ivcvUftingi  abet  be/  anb  be  i)cncc  fortb  i& 
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rc)r«tl?of^Oc)/anbbeyre0cfctcrndlt>anacion.2(nt)b»itbbrou^  «        u      / 
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r^U ie  onrc lorbc/anb  oure  rulcr/onrc  bceb/oure  ^orc mour/ou  j^^  ^^ 
reprirtce/ve  anb  oure 0ob.2(nb oure  i»yff*ie  locFcb  anb  Fnctffi:^    ^ 
fler  vnto  t^eiriffof  tbcberyffitben  coiibean  bunbrcb  tbotr^ 
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re  m^bt/power/fh-enotb/wilUnMufle .  tTitb  a>b  at  poy  feneb/ 
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mm  xci  abuoutrie/fovticarion/ «nb fud?  Ir Fe  vnclennee  i  voitb 
tcbat  pleafureanbbclcctattcn  tmrarb/y  femctb  a  glcrtcn  bis 
bcffi»fli>irba>batbi%e«  t>ifccapewe:'^owebu(rlifeFe  tretbe 


tljyn^e^  oft!)i^  t»oal>'.'tlD|bat  foe  vcr  wc'bccf/t^fnh/aymmdQi 

on/ie  abominahk  in  t^c  fy^^t  of ^o^,  2(rt^  xcc  are  Ae  it  wen  af'y 

lepe  in  \c  bepe  bIr>rtt>nc6/rF)At  we  can  nether  fe/no:  fcPe  m  tDf>At 

m^(cr3?/t:^:fiI^om/4ltb  W2ct4)ebnc$  trc  are  in/  tjrS^niofefi  ccmr 

AHv)  voah  P6/ant>  puWeff^e  i^elatre.tP^en  we  Kjearet^e  Mtjce 

trul)?p2cad)cb  /  ^owei:^atweon0J>tto  lot?e  an2>  |)onoure^ob 

mr|)  aff'curefren^^e  an^  m)>0^t/fromt()c  t^wc  bottom  of 

t^e  ^crt:ft^^  ourc  ne^^biirf  C)^c  oiireencmye^ae  oiire  feluee  ttis? 

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affKopc  «nt>  meFne^/  trf^tt  a  fervent  An^  a  bnmyn^c  lufle/from 

t^c  center  of tf^e  ^crr  /tf)ert  be^)?fTnetj)tj)econfdcncc  to  r<J^e 

40infl  t^c  Iawe/<W1^  A^cnp  ^o^/t1[o  fceC  be  ^it  never  fc  gfreate  a 

tempefl;)ie  fo  wtqaiet.  3t  10  not  pofJ5?ble  fo:  a  naturaff^man  to 

confentto  t^efatoe  /t^At  ^itfbnlb  be  j(oob/oj  tj^At^o^  f^uto  be 

vi0^tewe&jw^id^  mAFct|>  theUwc.^annce  x»ttte/re  Afon/AnD 

TPtftV^refo  fAft  ^lue^/)^enAvIe^  Anb  4>f!fncb  rntotbetDill  oftbe 

^er)^ff?t^[er^er  cAn  enj?  crcAtiirelowfc  t^e  bo^c^/fApe  t^ebloii^ 

of(f^:ift. 

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ps^rt  Uberte  rc^eme^/An^Iotr(e^»6. 45»^Wou^/|^ie beetle/ j)iepActencc/tn 

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meFenee  ano  fiif fiff^n^e  of rbe  rtmoft  poy nte  of tbe  lAtre  /  pe 4^= 

(eD  t|>e  up: Atb  of  ^ob/b:ou0bt  t^e  fArer  of  ^o^  to  re  A0Avne/  ob;= 

tcynctf  that  got>  f^tifc  fore  ve  fvt  (ic/An^  be  oiire  f Atb  er/Anb  t^  a  t 

a  mercf  f«6rfAtl)er/tbAt  triSVonfi?b:e  oure  tnfi'rmitAtc^  ant>  wc:^ 

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trA^ein  tf)efaffof2<t>Am)to  rufe  govern  an^ftren^tb  re/ An^ 

to  bxeAFe  tb  c  bonded  of  ©AtAn /where  in  tre  were  |o  ftrc)rte  bo* 

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^eArce^/  wI)i(|Arccontcfne&mrbep:op(>ettf/intbe  pfAlmce/ 

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nbivmccb  ^^  *^  the  bouteoue  mercf  of ^o^/Anb  h;nt>me>  f |>ewcb  of (T^tift. 

fav>tl?c/&tl?e  ^o:wbetbccrA£fclioni6p:eAd>cb/t^efpyiiteof0obcntret^  ito 

bzyngetl?  tovc  t^cm wbicb  ^ob  batf>  oibeineb  Anb  Apoj?nteb  vnto  etcrn Aff'Ivfe/ 

love  wwker fe  Anb  openct^  t|)ere  in wArb  eyc6  /  Anb  wotf et^  fu4>  belcfe  in  tbc. 


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Whcthc  vcc>fvilkd(ciccc&fcU^taft€hcvtefvcctc  athi^cthclytf 
tcr  bcrbc  of  (T^j^jfti^/i  bott»c  mciYyfnllt  lorin^c^o^  16  rbicti^b 
ifbriftce  purd>c(Vn^e  Ati^  mQrittf/Zl^£f  bigyv  to  lore  aQaym/ 
anZ>  to  confititttotbchvoe of^o"^ /hcw(tbat  i>iti& ^oob  /  an't> 
ou^bt  fo  to  bc/afi>  tfcar  ^c^  ie  ri^btctfcs  trbvcb  rtitfbe  tr/ 21^^ 
^cfjrrc  ro  fulfiStljcUtre/ercn  as  a  ficFe  ma  ^cfyrct()  to  be  xti^o^ 
U/antf  ate  «nl)cngtrc^/  anbatljirfJ  a(icr  more  ri^btetreffie^/ 
an^  a(ler  moie  ftre^tj^c  /to  fuIfiffVbe  lawe  more  perfea(v.3n^ 
in  AfTthat tt)ef^a>/oa  omittan^  leat>ern^one/tbc)rfefc^o^w>ed 
^onoure/a^^  hi^tci^vcitl}  mefrte6/ercrcont>emn^n^etf>eoni? 
perfeme^oftl^erc>e^e0byt()elal»e.  . 

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mancr  tpife.  ^irf^bf  i50urere^emer/^ely^?erer/reconcllcr/  mc^  ncuVrclr/ano 
Motor/ inter reflbr/abpof^t/aiturne>>/folidter/cureboopc/com^  Reverb  an  cn^ 
f ortc/f^ef^e/prctef rion/^cfen^f r/ftren^b/beltb/  fatisfamcrt/  rumple  tcwc 
a^^ fabadon.^te bIol^^/!?i^^eatb/d(^t!)at  ^e  erer^r^/  isou^  f^  be  ftovc  re 
re6.2(nb  (T^rif!  him filffc/tritl;  afftbat  be i^  or cS l>(x>/  i^  om-ee.  ^^^'r* 
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d)a(Vrt^e.  eS^coti^ar^if  aflcr  tl?at  we  be  overcome  witb  Ic^^ 
re  an^  Frn^rtee/an^  notre  fefe  to  ^oc»tbc  \»iff*of^o^  C^^y^  t^ 
a  cbriftenmancfi  ni3nirc)^ben  have  tre  c bri(le  an  e n (a mple  to 
counfcrfct/ae  (ait^ cbrxfi  ^im  |li(fe  in 3bon:  3  barc^ercn^on 
an  enfam p/e.2f  n^  m  an  or ber  eron^elf  fte/be  fait J):^e  t!>at  vcH^ 
be  Create  amende  ron  fbctlbc  yourc  ferraonr  anbmtm/?er/a0 
tbe  [dm  ofmaca  to  minifiircin'^  net  to  be  rtnniflerc^  rnto»2inb 
Paul  fair^:£oimterfet(rbrif?.21nb peter  faitb:  <fbr^^t^ie^fo:  fa^tl^ercce'^ 
you/an^  lefte you  an^ enfam pleto  foJowe  l?i>  fJeppe^.  tTbar  arerij  ofgot>/ 
foerertberfo:e faitb  batbreceareb  of ^c>tbiott»  (Tbnflf  Mou^  ^ni>  ^^1*'^^^ 
art^^efer^)rr1^e/tbatfamemuflIoue  (t)c^  outeererrtrbitr/an^  9^^^^  ^ 
beftoirebitOTionre  ne^bboiirf  rntotb^re  proffet/>>e  an^tbat  nrgbbonr. 
tbou^b  tbey  be  oiire  enrm;"$.Befaitb  Trereceareofoo>/an>  b< 
love  tpc fbeb  ottte  a^a^^ne,  21  nt>t^atmu(!  tre  ^oo  frcljrafler  t^e 
cnfample  of  ^Tbrift  rrirb  cote  ertf  ctbcr  refpccte  /  fare  cure 
ne^b  bourf  tee Itb  cnk/an't  netbf r  loFe  for  retrar^em ertb  /ner 
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^  trcxpe  d>n'  on  oiirccncmye  to  bryncje  tljem  to  ^o^/con(il)er)>n^c  nor!?)?nge 
^^"u"k"  hf^/  bwtt^erctx»dr!)/ae(ri)zif?^yt>oure6.  €\)iift  ^y^nott  I)i6^c^e6 

Ycb^b^cbri//  bieftlrebby/^ewaej)eyretl)creof/!)itt»<i6l)i0becri^mtaurice: 
rtcs  purcbcfin  butb)r^  t^cm  frel)?  fo:  cure  faFe^/cofib  cringe  no  tfeinge  but  oure 
ge/a n^ tb«rfo  tctlt^farit> to  blunge  t^e  farour  ofeo^  to  re <i^a)^nc  /  anX>  v^  to 
vc  lo vetj7/ano  ^ct).'2(e  no  n<;ituraft'fonne  tbat  ie  ^i6  fatbetf  be)^^e/t)oer^  ^ie  fa^ 
ja7omctP/to    ^jj^j.^  ^ -n  j,^  ^^y  j-^  jj  ^  ^jj^ijjp  1,^  (?e)^re/t  j)a r  be  ie  alrebb^  be  biir b  : 

onlv/anj>ro  !)i&f<it{)er0avebim tbat^^er l>et»a5 bcrne/anM6lot()tbert!?ar 
"oraweiiltbin  ^ef!)ulbc(<»wtt^outeit/tl)en  j)e{)imftlfe  !)at^  mrttobe:but 
ge^  CO  5ct>.  of  puer  love  boet(>  f>c  tf)at  ()e  boetl;,  'Zint)  axe  f)im  w!>)^  (>eboetb 
cn^t(>)«i0etbat^eboet!)/^eanftr>eretl>jmyfatbcrbabe/!ttem5> 
far ()erf will  /  it  pleajerb  m^r  father.  JBctio  ferrauntf  trorfe  for 
f>yre/<rbHbren  for  love,  ^or  tj)ere  fat|>er  wrtb  all  t>c\:)M^/ie  t{>e^ 
rf  alrebb^So  boet^  acljriften  man  freljr  all  tjjat  l>e  boetf)/con^ 
fit>ercrbnotf^yn^ebuttj)ewillof^ob/anb  biene^bbourf  weltb 
only.'yf5^1it7e4^afte/3bcot>itnortte  obteynebeventjjerb^  5or 
tl>m  f  j)ulbe  r  :>05  wron^c  ro  tbe  bloubof€bnTt:(f  btif^e^bloiib 
fjatj)  obteyneMitetl^at/cTbitfte^merertf  bavemabeme^e)?rc 
r!)erecf,^ei'dbotbboreanbrra)^eff)er!?ertrar^f.  Het!>ertl3at 
yloFe  for  an  !>yerroume  ml;  eve/ tj?entl)cyfl>all  l>avewbycl>  liV 
ve  m  weblocf e/otj)er  t^en  a  Ijoare  of  tl;e  flewee  Cy f  f be  repent:) 
for  tbat  iveretbe  pr^^eoflucifer:Bntfrel)^to  wdytc  ontj)e  e^ 
vangelion/anb to  fen>em)^b:othcrwiti? all/even  oe  onebant>e 
l>clpetb  anot{)er/or  one  membre  anot!)er/becau(e  one  feletl)  an^ 
otbcrf  grcfe/anbtbepa)>neoftbeoneietf?e  paync  oftl)cotber. 
TO^at  joever  te  bone  to  tl?e  leefl  of  V6  C  wl)ctber  it  be^oob  or 
bA'i>^  it  16  bone  to€^rifl,  2inb  irl)atfoex>er  iebone  to  my  bro<J 
t!)er(if5^beacI)nfIcnman)tl)atfamei6bonetome,rtctberbOi? 
etl?  m)?brotberf  pa^'ne  ^rcvcme  leflc  tben  myt}c  atvne*  tTTe^ 
tbcrr«oj>fcv*lcfTe  atjji^welthtbcnatm^^neaicpfte.  Jf  l)itxre^ 
renotfo  .•  bowe  fait^  pauWet^im  tbat  reic>;>fet{)  /  rcioyfe  in 
tbclotKtF>ati6  to  fayecl^rift/wljyd^ielotbeover  all  creatures, 
yfni^mcrettf  obte)met>mel;eve/or  an  i^yirroumc  tf)ere/tl)en 
^a^y  vc^crc  in  y  my^^t  nioy(c  be  (j^bee  te  ilotb  e. 
C  0ere  fe  )re  tl?e  nature  of  t!>e  la  wc/anb  tl;e  nature  of  tlje  eva£tc^ 


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Iiort.^otv^  tl^t  iLavot  byn^eth  an^  ^amth  all  me/an>  t^t  ^^ao 
|ionlotrrctbrbfma0c)fnc,2^!)elAttcjjoer^  before /ft^^  t()<  cv5<^  l^obtrt^an^ 
^cIi5folotrcrb.^l)maprcad)crprecd?crbrI>eilarPc/  l)cbpi^  lowu. 
^crb  allcon|cic^c<e/a^^trben  bcprca<^ctbtbc  (Bofpcli/bclctc^ 

fctb  ^fj  f  "^  agayne.^b^  (^  ^^^  falvceCf  meanc  rbc  Hawc  Cint>  t\}€ 
(BofpclOvrctb  (Dot)  an^bl6  prcacbcr  to  bcalc  an^ cure  friimriJ 
tpitb  oil.^  be  (awe  ^r)>vcrb  oiite  tbc  t>i|cafc/4n&  maFctb  btr  apc^ 
reMn^  id  a  f  barppcfalw/artb  a  frcoirngccoifej^/an^  Fyllctb  rb« 
'^ec^f^c|Tb«/ft^^Iol^fetb  an^^rAwctbtbe|orei>our  br  tbe  rctce/ 
fln^aUcorrupcior?.  ^tpiilictb  from  a  man  t^e  m)fian^confr* 
t)fcerbAt  bebAf^»"bimfilfe/ant)mbiecncworFf  /  mcrittf/ 
t>efervin0f  ant>cercmonc6. 3f  Wcrbbim/fent»ctb  bim  t>otrtte 
to^cll/anc)  bryn^crb  b»^1tovttcr^ifpcrac^on/anbprfp♦lrrctb 
tbctpav^cfUK  Io:^/a^ bifid  wrj^trcn  of3bon  tbcBaptef?. 
^or  I;iti0  nott  pofliblc  tb«Otiflfb«l^  come  ro  a  man/aeI5^ 
geae  ^e  rru^ctb  inb>ttifil(fc/onncny  wotblytbvn^c.  ^ben 
commcrb  tbc  ^r  wt^ch'on  /  a  more  gentle  pla(!cr  /  vo^ydf  foto^ 
pUtb/an&  (tra^erb  tbct»o^^c6oftbc  con|cicnfc/an&  bryn^etb 
bcltb.  3t  bryngctb tbe  rp3?ntc  cf^o^ /  trbycb  lotrfctb  tbc bon^ 
^ce  of fotart/ anb  coplerh  ve  to  ^0X>  an^  bid  will  tbtow  (Iron^e 
fftitb  an^  fcrrentlopc/tritb  bon^e6  toflroncjc  for  tbcl'cryll/tbe 
wojte/orcrt)?  creature  to  lot»fetb^»tt.3n^tbcpor:can^  irrct^  3  cljnfte  ml 
d)c^frnnerfclcrbfo^eatemerc^/lorc  /  anMrnbncdmgoV  ^^'^^^  ^/  ^ 
rbatbeidruerinl)imfiJfe  jjowe  tbAtiNdnottpoflfiblctbat^ob  f^ffJ"/Joc^^ 
^bul^  foifflPe  bi^n/or  i»irbl>ratro  bid  merc)^an^  lore  from  bim.  |„'  ujg  foulcl 
2(n^bolMj?cr$>ctbouna?itb  paulfayingc:  tObofballfcperate  anoinall  trt^ 
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rbal[maFcmebcUwrbaf£}oMorabmcnertf0ballmbuIaaV  f"^  ?^T^^ 
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fwcarbef  tTaf/3<imfeirfrtbarnctbcrbfctb/  iterlvre/nerbcr  f„iifat»?erAn2) 
angcll/ncrberruie/nerpotrer/nerbcrprcfcnt  tjj^^f/ncr  tbyfi:=  alovrnfic. 
5ftocomeMcrberbyenerIo\re/nefber en)? creature  id  able  to fc 
peratc V6  fro  tbe lore ofgob u»bic^ id  incbtiff  3cfu onrc  iot^c. 
3n  all  fudKtribuladonda<rb*if^ctt  man  perceaverb  tbat  got>  id 
bid  fatbcr/artMovetbby»n/ even  ad  heloreb^bnfl  ccb^nbe 
^>e^bldblon^  on  tbe  croflTc  .?rnaU)?/ad  beforeA»be>>  trad  bob 
to  tbe  bcrr II  anb  bf d  roiil/y  wzog^t  all  maner  tvyll  anbtwicfebe 
ned/nottforbclledfafcTt>bid?idrberet»ar5>cofOnc/butbecaure 


y  wa&  \>c^rcof  ^dl  by  byitb  ftn^  bonM^c  to tbc^et)HI/t>)?^  ^  e< 

vyU.5or3coul&nonccti)€ra>e(c^(».  to^oc)  (j^nwa^nii nature. 

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y  vodl/nott  for  ^cvcn^  (ah  tbin  be  cAufe  )^  am  i>cvn  of^cvcn  by 

0r^ccan'i)€i>rifi'f  purcb€(yn^t  /ar^^!)Arc  tlje  |>)?rif  ofgo^/J 

4)CD  ^oobfrcl^/for  fo  i>  nt)^  naturc.2t^  a  0co^  tree  br)?n^f  th  fortl; 

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frrowe  xvi>at  tl)c  tree  ie, a  mannce ^e^ee  t>ed«re  voi)at^c i& 

tritf)  ill  birt mah  (jutt  nct!>er 0cot)  net  b4D  -rc.tPe  mtift  be  firfl 

tv^iiycrvoc^xx}  cv)?fi7ae  a  ferpenti^  prfl  poy(ene^^r  l>c  poj^fcn. 

n>emu|lbeal|b0oD^  y^  we^oo^^/ae  tjjc  (^^e  tiutfi  be  firft 

^ott  y^er  l)itt»arme  enyt^yn^e,  Zahan  enjample^  21^  tf)o(e 

^Iyn^e  tt>t>)^c^  4rc  airei>  m  t^e  cvangdion  I  coixot  nott  fct)^(f 

iTbrifl  b^^  ^eren  t^em  fi^fjt/  2Int)  ^eff  cout>e  nott l)eare  /  tytf 

iT^rifl  ^a&  ^epen  t^em  jjeot^n^e/^fn^  tbofe  jicFc  coube  nott  ^oo 

fbe^e^eeofa^\»bcIem«n/tj?fv^j)nfll)a^0ercntl)cmbealtb: 

00  can  no  man ^oo^oo^m  bi$foule/t)?ft'$r()rif?  bitvelovpfe^ 

\^im  onteoft^ebon^eeoffata/an^  ^ve^ere  J)im  noberewit^ 

to  ^05  000^/ re  an^  fhfle  (?ave  potx're^  into  ()im  tl^at  felfe  0oo?> 

t^^^e  tt>l>)^d>  j)e  (bc'^itY^  foitj?  aftertrar^e  on  otf)er,  tP|)at  foe<J 

ver  10  ourc  awne  ie  (ynm,KV  bat  (bevcr  10  above  tl)at  /  i&  (T  bn  ^ 

ftf  0f  fte/p^rc^e6/^or«CJe/an^  wotFyn0e»  ^e  bou0^t  it  of  bi^ 

father  Merely  mtb  \^\eb\ouX>lyt  tritb  biemooft  bitter  ^catb  an^ 

0a\>e  (>i6  Ij^fe  for  ^it,  KOl>at  foerer  0oo^  tbyn^^  ie  in  v&  /  tbat  ie 

0event>6  frel);^  toit^  onteoure  ^efcrt>)?n0  ormerettf  for 

<f  Ijnfif  blout>f  faFe.C^ttt>e^ef)?:e  tofolowt^ewi^ 

of  0ot>/iti&  t^e  0)>fte  of^Tb  Jtftf  bIoll^.<^^at  tr»e  notce 

l>atctbebet>yUf  mllCxrbere  vntoiape  irerejo 

fafl  IocFe^/an^  cou^e  nott  but  lore  ^it)  i^ 

al(o  tj>e  0)>|lc  of  if  b:U  tee  bloub/rnto 

w^om  belon^etb  ti>e  p:eyfe  atio 

j^ononre  ofo«re0oo^^c^ce/ 

ant>nott  vntov^. 


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tbc  captirirc  of  babi  fort 
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merrteu  wirl?  oii^  from  tbeir  fj^nne^. 

re  f  l2erc  oefervmg  ^^(II  t^ie  xvae  bone/to  fulfill  tf)at  trbic^  wa^  fpof  en  of  t^e 

Cburf-c  bzvMRerh  ^"^'^^Z  ^^  ^^^  p:op^et  faj^in^erbe^olbe  a  maybe fbalbe  xvit^ 

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it  16  ri^ere  is  tjoo .  name  ^maniicffV  vo^id) ie  ae  mo<I?c  to (nyc/bc  intapxctad^ 

Ant>  were  c^jift    on/cic>0obmtl^v&, 

isnottf?^rci6^ot  |i;3cfep^a6fccncae  beawoFeoutofflcpt/byb  ae  tfje  ati^/ 

fbe ! refbdiinort  ^^^^ "^f  ^^^ ^^^^^ ^*^^ ^^^ / ^^ ^^^^ ^**  ^^f'^ ^^^^ bim/anb 
fuppoofe  r^at  Ije  Fnewe ()ernott^c/tyn  n?e|)abbebrou5l)tfojt|>e  ber  fyr(lfcn^ 
iie/anb  callcb  ^i&  name3efu6. 


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JbmSffuo  maobomr  m^nh  |ilg^ 

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?c/5cI)oIbc/r{)cre  cam^c  TX)yfc mc fro  tf)c  c|lc  ro 3^  pc  aiit>  r^c  ertii 
rufakmfayiit0c:trj)erc  lei^etjjAt  ieboinc  fyn^  DiYc/rtefcriprure 


dc  of  the  icttce:'  roc  have  fcnc  ^ie  flarrc  in  the  cflc/Anb  Arc  co  "'canerl?  notr /Ije 
mctotro#ippc^ym,        ^  ^  ,^   .    ^    ,  .    ,  vpar^e :  cv^n  Too 

|£=8«•o^c  tN  f>n0eMfter  bc^ab^c  {)crbetf)i6/TOa6trou^  tjcrc/tiffdott'cft 
Wcb/anb  all  3(rufalcvcitl)  f)ym  /  an^  {>e  fcnt  for  all  tf)€  d?efc  not  rfeat  lofepl?  ke 
free|lc6anbfcrfbe6oft!)cpecPlc/anbbcmaimbcb  cft{)cm  we  ourclat>taf/^ 
xD^crc  (Thnft  f Ijulbc  be  5o:nc.t^cy  faybc  rnto  ^im :  in  bct^^J  f ^^  warbc. 
le  j)em  a  tonne  of  iury.  Jor  tbiie  ie  it  tprjrtte  bj?  tf)e  prophet;       *  ^»y^e  men. 
mi'cfe.  V  2<nb  thotibctf)Iehem  in  tl)c  lobe  of  ^«iury/fF)alt  not  be  t l?e  (ecfl  (0  f  matJjcg  tl?ef 
a^perte)?nyn^ctot!)ep:yncf  ofiiiba.  Joroutoft{)cff)aIIco^  arcaUiD  :K>agi/ 
mc  acaptayne  /  wf)y4)  fljall  ^orcrn  my  people  i|ra()eL         tr^aTtbJ eft/ obi 
CCf)cn^erobprepd)?  calIebt{)eTO)?femcn/ant)  b5?li^cntfy  lofopljcre  cotifn;? 
enquj^rcbof t^cm/tlje tymeoft^e (lane that appcrcb.  2tnb  ge in nar uraUcau 
fcntt()emtobet^leI)cmfayin0e:icr?)€nye  be  come  t())?bcr  fe^  fes  t  effectee/anc 
ard^e  bili^cntly  fo:  t{)e  ^^ylbe.  '2Jnb  trbcn  ye  l)auc  fotinbe  f)ym  ^^^  ^y  ^*  n^t^^ 
btt^emct»02bc/tl)aty  ?naye  come  anbtrorfbippe  f)ymalfo.  ^^^^'^  *^*'  ^ 
tt>^etf>cv  ^ab  bcrbe  tl>e  F)^n^e/tl)ey bcpartcb/anb  lot(>e  flari^  *5ujrV  »^  ^fe^  '^"^ 
re  a>l)i?d?  t^ey  fatre  in  tl)ic  e(?e  went  before  tl)an/  vntyil  it  ca  ^^  h  w  krnrc^ 
anb  flobe  overtime  place  w!)cretf>ed>ylbc  trae.tD^et^cy  faj?  fbat^t)vrelt  ttjere 
rpe  tj)eftarre/t{)ey trere  marreyIoufiv£(Iabbe.2(nb<ntrcb  in^  m. 
to  tl)c  boufe/anb  foiib  tbe  4)ilbe  tt)itf)i11ar)r  by6  motf)cr/anb 
Fncicb  boune  anb  n7orfT)ippcb  ^ym  /  :int>  openeb  t^crt  trca^ 
fettrf /anb  offrcb  rnto  fjmi  0yftee/  0oIb/francfynfcnce  /  anb 
myr,2lnb  after  tijeytreretrameb  in  tbeir  flepe/ tj) at  t!)e>» 
f()ulbcnot^oa^evnetO:f?erob/t^eyrcturnebinrot^ereaw^ 
ne  coiintre  anorbcr  tcaye. 

C2lfier  tl)at  t^ey  were  beparteb  /lo  t{)e  an^ell  of tlje  loabe  a^ 
f  crcb  ro3ofcpb  in  I)ieflcpefayin^e;aryfe  an't*  tafe  rlje  d?ylbe 
M'b  bid  mct!>er/  anb  fiyc  in  to  c0ipte  /  anb  abybe  t^ere  tjpll  y 
^yn0ctbcxro:be.5or igcrcb  wpyll feFe  t^e  cl?>'Ibctobe(?royr 

^       iif 


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j))?m.  Z^tn  ^e  Arofc  /  anb  toFe  r|>e  <^)?Ibe  Mlb  ^le  m^t j)er  by 
iiy^^t/anb'^cpamb  into  c0iptc/  «nt)tra6t^cre\?ntot^ct>c;? 
t^c  of  bcrob/  to  fulfill  t^At  xxf^id^  wne  fpoFen  of  tF)c  Iort>e  /  l>)r  ^ r    . 
t^c  prop!)et/t»f)ic^  |«yct{):outof  c^iptc  ^aue)?  cdkt>  my  (one.  -|^     ' 
IfC^m  ftcrob  percc<tx)yit0e  t^at  ^c  was  t1tocFe^  of r|>e  wy^  jrjt.||*» 
(c  mzn/voA6  c)cc€t>p^^€ wrM^c/an'Ct  fcntfon^c  atiiy  f Icwc  dl 
tf>c  <^)r(t>z^t^tx»cre  in  bct^lef>e/anb  i  all  t^c  ccoflce  t^erc  6f/ 
as  many  ae  were  tvro  yerc  ofee  anb  Dnber  /  accorbi0e  to  t^e 
tymcto$i<^  ^e  babbilifilently  fearc^eb  out  of  t|>e  tryfe  men. 
-*»    u  n      ^i.    irCbena?a6fu(filleb/tf)attDf>yc^tpae(poFebytl)ep:op^et  71^-^ 
^iMlrTefrom  3eremi/faymcje:(Dnt^e^inestra6apotce^erbe/moiirn)m.  f,^T; 
l)ctl2lel?cm/ao  tl?c  £je/wepyn0e/anb^earelamentacton  -x-5acbe|trepyn0e  for 
propl?ec  fiijmfierl?  ^er  c^ilbre/aub  roolbe  notbe  cofcrteb/bc  caufe  t^ey  were  not. 
t^at  AS  Q?c  mour  |j;1CPj)eni^erobtDa&beeb/Io  anan^elloftfjelorbeapereb  rn^ 
ncx>  ^cr  fonc  benj-  ^^  'Jofep^ in  e^ipte  faym0e:aryfe  anb  tah  t^c  c^ylbe  ati^  ^ie 
bvT%^cD/r^  motf>er/anbgointot^elonbeofirraber.  iort|)cy  are  becb/ 
fl?ulofl?e  inotl^e^  w^i<^ fou0^t t^c c^ylbed beet^.C^e i)e arofc vp/ anb tofctbe 
rjj  of  tljefe  cl?ilt)F/  d^yltyc  ant>  ^ie  mot^ e r/anb  cam  into  tF)e  lonbe  of  i(ra^eL  23nt 
eti  mournc .  ^115  ^kg„  |>e|[)erbe tl>at  2f rc|>ilau6 byb  ray^ne  in  lury/  in  tl>e  rou:= 
tlTit^LZb%  ineof^i* father  aerob/^e was afra);beto 00  r^yber  /  not^  ^^  ,    , 
wav^/ \viri? the H  witf)|lonbyn0e aflerjje waewamcb in ^idflepc/l^e tumeb a<  Jm"/^- 
gljrccl^tifleninea  fibcinto  tf)e  parties  of0alile/ anb  t»ct  anb  bwelt  in  a  cetecal^  J,^^^- 
before  rl?c\vorl&/  (cbna^aret^/tofulfiH/t^atw^ic^  was  fpoFe  by  the  propbcrf:  ^^^* 

»f^?«         C!ittlim0t(Clia|ltm 

cv  arc  vPon^crhl/>  '^  * 

teJo'Zari  B^tBtltofttidrf$giitmtlitbft^ 

of 0ot>/aaevnil  all    ^Sj  |^y  P^yfer  /  c(im  anb prea4>eb  in  t^c  rpylbernes  of  1in.  m. 

powcjofijeiu         |^*'PW|i'oryfayn0e; repent/  t^eFyrt0€bomof^ercny6  Jf)0,t 
.  l^^i^iSl  at^onb£f)yi&  yel)c  ofvo^om  it  ys  jpoFen  be  tbe 
propbet  3ray/ir|)ycl?  fayt^  jtfje  roiceof  a  cryer  in  trylbernes/ 
prepaireyct^elorbestt?aye/anbmaFe|)yspat^e6  flray0^t.  '^c^  ^{ 
I[tbys3f)onl)abby60armentofcamcllt  I)eere/anba0)^r=^  ^^r  1* 

♦  toaiftes  /  are  ^V ^^  ^f  ^  ff  l^nne  a  boat  ^ys  loynes.  4S ve  meate  tras  -k  locufif  / 

moret^cn  ovpm  ^n'^rxylbpcony.  (Tj^en  went  out  to  f^im3mifarctit/ anb  all 


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Hmy/Cint>  all  rj)e  region  rcunbe  about  iorbAne/Anbwcrc  ba^  $it(f^cppnB/^  fou 
ptrrebof^ymmiorbane/FnotPlcb^yn^cr^ercfj^nnee.  c[}cmtnv(€toeai. 

CtrbctefaxTcmart^of  t^cp^arifcd  ariboft^c  {(Ct>iict6co^  tei^irtwpurticB 
rtKro^yebaptim/^cfaybrmot^e.  (D0cncradcnofriperf/  ofrljccftc. 
tr^  ^at^  tau0 j)f  you  to  Pyc  fro  t|)c  regaucc  to  comc^brjrn^c 
fortbc  tbcrforc  t^cfrntrf  bclon0j?n0ctorcpcnt4nncc.  :21nb 
fet^Atyccncct^ynFcnotro  fayc  m  ycurcfclrce/trc^aue^^  ^w  yometuinc 
brabamtoourcfat^cn^oryfaycrmoyou/tbat^obye  aWc  I:5^^!?^^,T!f^^'J 
oftf)efe f?once/torcyfcx)pc^yIbrernto2(bra^am.^rcnno^  aS favS 
t»£y6t{)cajc€putrntot^crcrccft{)ctrcc6:forbAtcr<ry  tree  be  an enfaple vn// 
ipf)y<^bryn0ct^notfort()/0CDbfriite/  f^albe^ewcnbcune/  tofou-znotvome 
anb  cafi  in  to  t^t  fyrc/  2."'^1^  cofiDenc e 


,      -,        ,    ^      ^^      ,       *        .       .  .  xrbcn  \refo:rdke 

pourb0ebyi>noorc/anb  0abt)retben?pectcin  to  pye garner/  alioiuc  awnert'/ 
anb  voiU  bumc  tbed?a(f toitj)  crcdafiin^c  fyre.  gtcvpcfnee  /  rt<ic 

ir5"bcn  cam  3cfut5  fromctalilcmtciorbanto  3^on/forto  be  got>onl^  JL"^^1*^ 
baptifcb of ^im.But3^on  forbabc  byin  faym^c:;  ou0|)tto  be  ^£^"^^^^.1^^^ ^ 
baptifeb  oft{)e:anb  comcf?  t^ou  tc  mcf  3cfu6  Anft5p«rcb«nb  mak^rj?  ngbxrea/ 
faybto^im/Utyttbcfonotre.  ^orr^nebit  becomer^  x>e>/to  rist?tw<re/r]?:o\t> 
fnIf)?UalUri0^rctrcfrtC0.3I^c^cfiiffrcb^rf".  2(nb3cf«»  A6  fdfl?.^l?i6Docf^ 
(cone a&  ^cp?A6  baptifeb/ca  Oray0 j>t  outof t^e Ta?atcr;21nb f o  5'?<J"|  t\f  ^  •??  P" 

lob  I  '^^^^^<^^^P^»ntohim:anb^cfatt'ct|)efpintcof0obbc(ccbe  '^^^^^ ^IIJJ  2? 
^*at.  ^^^^  *  bovc/anb  (y0btrppo  bim,2(nb  lo  t^crc  cam  a  voice  firo  ^^"^"S^bcwe^/ 

jrpij,  b^^^  fayin0 :  tbyd  ye> my  beare  fcmte/  in  w^oiti  ie my bclyte.  fn?ct>  of  iCI?i^fl  a^ 

Ctie  faurgjlir  iCtottr.         ^l?ti& 
^."uii-  ^^^^«  ^^^  1^^^5  ^^  iimaitof  sJctt^o'^: 

2a^|t^«rpiHf£intOA  befcrt/tobctefiipt<boftbeb€p^'  onbrmiburruffr"/ 
^m rU/^nbtr?)ci)r;cF,abfaflebfourtye bayce/anb^I.  fl'^i^ri^:^!^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

came  pntyllbym  tbe  tcmprcr/anbfaybc :  yff  tl)oubetj)e  fo^^  ofl?c2  rljin^^c  t^en 
nnfofgob/commannbct^att^cfc  flonc^  be  niabe  brccb.  oecr^. 


Cl^e(5ofpe«of 

onlybibteabe/Butbj?  cpcry\i>o:bctf>«p:cceabctl)  ouroft^e 
iiioutl)of0ob. 

frCbcrtt^ebevj>n  tooFeljim  rp  in  to  r{jc  ()olt^ cetc  /  cinh  (tt 
f)ymoit a p)?nadc of tl)ctcmplc/anbfa)?br>ntc5im;yftbou  be  p|aLjrc 
t^e foniie  of ^ob/cAJi  t|^y  (ylfc  boime.  Jo:^lr)^6 tt»:)?ttcii/ f)c 
ff)ali  ^cpc  i^ye  an^dU  d} ar^c  oucr thc/Ati^  xcitl)  there  ^abce 
r!)cy  ff)all  |lc)?t^ex?p/tJ)atr^ou  bafl^c  notttbj^fotc  a^(X)?ii(i 
a  (lone .  3cf!i&  fcybc  to  {>)^ni  /^ir  )>^  t»:)*ttcn  alfo  J  t^op  f  ^It  ^^y  ^^ 
not  tcmprc  t  j)y  f  oibe^ob. 

CZi>c'^tvyHtohhymvpa^Cifnt  <tnb  Icbbcf>»tt  into  mt)t^ 
ccbyn^e  bye  iiioutaync  /  Ant>  f  f)etDcb  ^ym  all  t  j)c  Fyn0bome« 
of t^c  tx)o:lbc/anb  tf)e bcMUy  of tfjcm/artb  fa)?b  x?rtto  bin^ ;  <^n 
t^cfc  W)?Il )?  0epctbc  /)^f  t^oii  n>ilt  fall  boime  anbvc»o:ff)ipiJ 
pc  nic»i(>cn  fayb  3cru6  pnto  l>vm  /  at>o^b  fatan.  Jo:  i>ity&  >. 
tpr)?ttm/tboiifF)alttx>o:f^ippc  tF)y{otbc0ob/anbf)jrmonI)^/  '^^'^•^^ 
fl^alt  tl)oii  jcrtjc. 

li:C^cntf)cbci?)?U  fcft  f>im/ anb  lo  tf>c  an^jcllf  cam  anb  mt<^ 
niprcbvntobym, 

CVX>?)cn3c|ije[)abf)crbc  tf)at3^ontpa6taFcn/f>cbcpar^ 
tcb  in  to  0alilc/  anb  left  na3arctl>/artb  trcnt  anb btrclte  in  ca^ 
pcrnau/tc>?))>c^)?eacetcpppon  t^efcc/intl^ecoflf  of  5abuIon 
anb  neptalim  /  to  fuffvU  tl}at  vol)yd)  wae  (poFcn  be  3{ay  tl)e 
prop^ct/fayin0e:t^c  Jonbe  ofjabulon  Ant^  neptalim/ 1 j)c  tra^J 
yc  of  tlje  fee beyonbio:b an/0alile  of  tl^cffcmyle  /tj^e people 
wl>)?d;  fatt  in  bcrcFnc^/fawc  0reat  l)?0tl)/2tnb  to  t^em  xcl)i^ 
fartin  t^crc^ton  anb  fi)abot»cof  bcetl>  ly^tl)  is  fp:on0e. 
f[  Jrom  t^at  ry mc  3^rw^  be^an  to  p:eac^e/anb  to  faye  :  }^c^ 
pent/for  ti)eFyn0et)om  of^cvcnjf^eat  Ijonbe. 
€r2(i5 3cr"i>w^lfcb  by  ti^e fee  of^alile/^efatvc  ttro  b:etbt<ft.  O^av.i 
©ymon  wf)yc^  wad  callcb  peter /anb  2(nb:ew  f?y6  brotl^er/ 
ci^ftyni^c  a  nett  in  to  t^e  fee  Cjfo:  tl)ey  were  fyflf^ere  )  anb  ^e 
faybvntotl)em/foloweme/anb3wyll  n\Sih  you  fy(f!)ci6 
of  men,  2^nb  tl)ey  f^re^cjljt  tvaye  lefte  tl>ere  ncttf /anbfolowcb 
l)ym, 

4L'2in^  f)e  went  foztl)e  from  tjjence  /anb  fa  we  otl)er  two  brc^ 
tl;rcn  /3amei3  rl)e  fonnc  of  jebebe/anb  3^on  I>id  b:otl)cr  in 


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th({b!^ppi/\vit^  ^thcbc th<ir  father /mmt>\n0tt^<n  mttf/ 
a^bca^c^tI)em.2(nb  tf>cyvciti}outtarym0tUfitl}c  f^yppc 
ant>  there  farbcr  anbfoloxrcb  \)ym. 


^£rt^. 


ill.  VI. 


t[2fnb3cfu&  tret  about  all  ^alile/tcacbyii^c  in  t\)ert  fyna^o^  ^?«  vrorlDc  ti}i// 
^ee/anepKachyn^ctl)€go\p<lloft})ciryt^^bom/ant>i)calyn^.  ^?^^ ^9^ po^^tffe 
0calImaniicroffyrfiK6/anbaIlmaner  bileafcs amende t^e  IJenlXeut  ^/ 
people .  Znb  l)ye  fame  fpub  a  btoabc  tb:oiig^  out  all  firia.  ne/wljcn  ri^ev  Jfc 
2fnb  t()C)>  b:ou0!>r  rnto  {))?m  all  fide  people/ tF)at  trere  taFen  violence  •:  power; 
tcit{)  b;>rer6 bifeafes anb  c^ypyn^/an'b  t^cm r j^attrcre pof?  J2J^^'?'*'^  reacf^e-^ 
fcflcb wirf)bev?)^S^/anb t^ofc xvl^id;^ xcae limatich/an'b \\)o<^  ^  X^V^^^ ]?^'^^ 
ft tb«t ^at, tk< m •■  an6 1)c ^>calc^ tb?  2(..b t^m folou^eb  Z&!"coZ 
biiii  a  0rcate  noub:c  of  people/from  rjalile/  anb  from  tbc  ten  l^/  anb  \v»r^  cure 
ccte<>/anbfromicruralem/anbfrom  iiiry /anb from  t^crc^  power  an^vlole^/ 
0ione»t!jarlycbeyonbiciban.  ^^' 

ail  rbefc  ^f^c6 

ibm.lit  fmuf  thf  pfoplr/ftriSSS 

ircntx^p  mto  a  mountaine/anbircnpc  waejett/  ^e  not  a  man  ha/ 
bys  bifciplee  cam pnro  bim /anb  ^e  openeb^id  ppfeanD  blcflcD/ 

inioiit^/anbtau0btrF)cmfayin0c:BIefrcbaref()e  nerl?er  ^e^ervet^ 

pop:einfp2ere:fo:rl;erei6tbcryn0bom  of  !>«'«":  BlcflTcb  K„^,^^^^^^^^^ 
aretpcjrtbatmoume:fo:tbcyfbAlbc  comfo:tcb  .Bleffebarc  jj„j,  fefhfte  rbat 
t|^c  meFe:fo:  tbeyff)all  inberet  ^ctbeert^>e,Ble(feb  arctbey  tre  arel?appr  in?) 
rDbicbf)nctcr anb  tbur(lfo:ricj^tctrefnce;fo:tbevfbalbefyl<  WefleDean&Vf^at 
Icb.BrejTcbarct^emcrcyfulhfoubcy  ({>aS' obteyne  mercy,  wcfljallbaveijr// 
BlefTrt  arc  tt,e  pure  m  bcrt:f«r  rbeHV"  fMJcb  .  BkfV  S^c^L^'^ 
feb  are  tbc  mayntcyncre  cf  peace :  fo:  tbcyfbalbe  ca\U^  erbvsioure  brr^ 
rf)e(^ylb:cnofcfob.Blc(lcbarctf>cytrbid?|uflTcpcrfeaJcion  tes  rl^ar  trc  ure 
fo:  ri(jbtetocfnc6  faFe ;  fo: i\)exe>  ie tJ>c  Xyn^^Qtn  of ^cren.  ^<>^^^  fonnes/  7 
Bleflebare  yetr?>emcnfbaffrcryleyou/anbpcrfeciitcyoii/  "J^^F'v^Nr  (To^ 
anbfbal  falflyfaycall  manner  of  ct)lefaym£rf  a^aynflyou  ^J^^^;!;.'',^:^^^^^^^^ 
for  my  fafe.^cioyce  ob  bc0labbe/fo:0rcate  leyoure  rctoar^  ^cxtn  to  vu  frdy 
beinbft7en.5o:foperfecutebtl>c)>tl)cp:op!>ettf  irbicb  trcre  ofgo^ford^nftec 

befoieyourebayce.  blou&De^ralu  ao 

'^  ^         qiemenfffs 


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J^©«lt.       fiycareJt:^^cfaIiroft^e  crt^cAyvt  afi^ftU(du  hccnccvnfa 

Sf  wofoc/tf^c  fo:iiot^ynrjc/5nt  tobecafloittat  t^ct>o:ce/an^  t^«t  men 
muftc  rf?ev  ncOca  rrcabc  it  \?/tber  fete .  ye  arc  t^c  Ii0^t  of  tt>e  \voilt>e .  2f  cite 
be  <?pp:cflet)  trr^  tbatiefettonart  bill  cannot  be  jjyb/nct^crbomenli^^tacaff 
ot>  vnocr  fote  w^  ^(^  Mb  put  it  vnt>cr  a  bnfl^ell  /  hut  on  a  canbelflycFc  /  onb  it 

cton5^"'^^^  ^         ^'^f^^^^^  ^^^^^f^ ^^** ^^^  *"  tf>eboufre.@e tbat  youre li^bt 
*  iijott*       forc^)?nebcfo2cmen/tj)attj)ey  fnayefc  route  0cob  werff /anb 
Tf6fl0  iiiocl?c  too  0lo:r fie yourefat^er/t»^i4 16  in  ^ewm 

tr  fit^isMc  ^y^  f^^^^  "^^  ^^^"^^  /  ^^^^^  ^"^ ^^^"^^  ^^  H^nuH  t^e fatpf 
cfl*  letter  fl?at  tl?e  ^^^^^  ^^^  pioph^ittfmo  y  am  not  come  to  byfanull  ti>cm  /  but 
grekeu  ottljebc^  tofulfijntbcm.^ortrnefy)rfar  vnto)?ou/t)?II  bercnanbcrtbe 
b>«edl^mic/caUeD  peryfj|)e/one*3ott/oronetytleof  tf)elat»e  fljallnot  (cope/ 
t3)jeakrtl?      t)jIlaUbef«Ifrtteb. 

l2id?  fii^c  tbat  tbc  CvPpofoepcrObreaFetbone  of tpefclec ft commaunbmentf / 
fe/Cbuftfcomauf  onb  f5)al(tei>cmcnfo/^efbalbe  callcbt^c^Ieefl  in  tbe  Fyn^ 
?Mncntfarcnorco  jjbom  of  bcpen  ♦  But  wbofocverfbaU  cbfcrre  anb  ttac^c 
ToSce'^^       t^em/tJ)atpeifonc  ff)albcca(rcblC^rcatein  t^e  fyn0bomcf 

^f ^  I?  f 0  /^V^-  Ci<5«*3r*y  >^"<^o  y<>w  ejrcept  y ourePVi^J)  tewcfned  ejrr ebc/tbe  £rO;Tr. 
rijalbeUtdefetbf  n^^uvoe(nce>cftl^c(crybce  anb pbaryfe6/)^e cannot cntre in  •^•^^• 

Ssictic  tot^eFyn0bomoff)et>cn. 
Stbat  iB/fbalbe  Cyc^ave  J)erbe^ow>eittipa6(aj?brnto  fbcmofthcoIbetr^Xcrrmf'. 
inocbc  rert  bv/t  meX^ouf{)aItnotfyH,tX>f)ofocper  fbaflfyll  /fbalbe  inba^ 
^be"iroolne^^of  tin0erofiub0ement.BMt3  fa^^trntoyou/wl^ofocper^^ean^ 
t\}€ pf^arifaiefi/fto  !^« tribt b V^  brorbcr/f^albe  m  baun^cr of iiib^emet  tPbo^ 
Mtb in  ovtwar&c  jocverfb^Wfay vnto{)i0brotber^racba/f^aIbeinbaucjer  of 
woiKnappiera^  acoufeilL  Bnt«)bofoei?erfbartfay  x?ntobi6brotbertJ)otifotf 
"^^u'l  tbr  h  (e/f^albeinbaun^erof^clf  f)>re,5r|)erfore  wi>e  t^ou  offerefi 
lis  oFtbebelte!    tby  0)»fteattt{)ealtre/anbtberf remenibrefi  t^atthy  brotbcr 

•K  Tflacba.  bfttbcnj?tbyn0ca0aynfl  t^c ;  leve  t^ere  t|))?neo|fryn0e  bi^ 
3t»  tbc  tpboarre  fore  t()ea!trc/anb0ot^3?  tray cfjorf?  anb  reconcile  t^y  filff  to 
iouoe  in  tl?e  rf?:o'/  thy  brother  /  an'^ tbcn  com e  m^  offre  t{)y  0)>fte, 

alfiygneo* ofwv  C^^«witbtl;ineabrcrfary atonce/n?|>)?le6t^ouarte  tntbc 
arl^  tvayc\vit^j>ym/lcpt|)ineabucrfar)?bctix)rct5)c  tot^eiub^c/ 


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€ro.xx.  Anb t\)thib^cbtlyvt€t^ctot}^tmimf\<r/anb t%etl)Oubccafl 
in  to  piefon.  3  fay  v>nto  t^t  rcrely:  t^ou  f  j)alt  not  come  out 
t^cncc  tyll  t^ou  ^avc  pay^^  t^c  rtmooft  fort^yn^c .  *  '*sr    ii 

eye  ^avc  ^erbc  ^oxvt  yt  xca^fay^t  to  t{)em  of olbc  tymc/  ^0  plucke  oate 
t\)oii(^a\t  notcommytt  aZivoutric'ButJfxyvmoyoii/t^at  (piritual^  ie  Ij^-^ 
vcl^ofotyxrcytth awyfc/luilyn^c afinhtr /^{it^c  contmyt^  ^f  coimmunt^ct)/ 
Ut>  abvoutric xvitl>  jjcr  altcby  in  ^le  bcrt.  fcs  li^c w  7i/a/ 

CVrjxrfore  yf  t^)?ri0f)t  e)>c  offcnbc  tj>e/*  pfucfc  |)ym  out  waJcan^K^^lJ)l^ 
«nb caflc  I)im  front  t^c/Bettcr  $it  le  for  tf>c  / tf)at  one  of  t^y  ^ks^^rt . 
mcinbred  pcr)?fffc>et^entbat  t^yw^ok  boby  f{)ulbbe  caftc  j&n  r^^^^^ 
in  to  M  2((ro);frbr  n.^bt  |)onbe  offent)  tlje /  cu ttj>ym  of  XLSa  ,„.t 
onb  caftc  ^ym  front  toe.  Better  bit  ie>  tpu  one  of  t j»r  mcm:^  offym  (Tlrfe  ooir ^/ 
bred  perifl^e/t^en  t^t  all  t^yboby  fi^ulbe  /  btcaftc  in  to  arel?ere  fo2byt>e/ 
|)e||,  nevcrffpeleOctP^^ 

oi^atb  C:«it)rdf«y>b/tDf)oroer<rputawa)re{)i6tr)>fe/Iet!>ym0e^  !fe«bb«rf  m^^^? 
^J^^^*?'  ve  b<r a  teflynionyair  of  ^er  b.rorcement,  Bin  3  fay  rnto  X^^^Xlt 
mar.  I'x.  )?ou:t»|>ofoercr  put  awaye  ^y£^ tryfeCejtrcept  j)it  be  for  for^  oure  rei]uv:if^  ^// 
k>^ .  nicadon)  cowfetb  ^er  to  breaPe  matnmony/2(nb  w^o  foe*  ir/ri?en  10  t^if  vpeli 
J^^-  ^  rermaryetbbertbatidbirorfeb/breaFrtbtreblocfe.  pone  rco  fwearc. 

ri;-.       C^^^^yni^  vebAuebcrbe/boweitwAefaibtotpcniofoibet)^^  bt^^enl0/tmls 
manr-  nie/tboufbaltrtotforfxrerct^)>filfc/butf^a(tpcrform<t^ine  UwDaWe  tt>pel?it 
lu .  vt.  otbe  to  ^ob.But  3  f<^y«  vnto  5>oul^ftrerenot  at  aUmet^cr  by  pi^^^itl^  of  love 
^'^^'  bcrcn/for  bitye  cjobbee  feate ;  nor  >^et  by  t|>e  errf)  /  for  it  id  !j,S?"|i"''^  6^ 
^ysfotefiole;  tletbcr  by  3frufalcm/for  It  iet{)e  cite  of  tJK       ^ 
0reatefyn^c:  tletb^r fbaltrboufvcereby  t!)y  |)ecb/becaufe 
tboucftnflnotmafeonefjecrtX){)yte/crb(«cfe;Bnt)ronrec5^«^^j„ji„^^j^^^/ 
mumcac!onfl)albc/ye/ye:na)?/nay.  JJortDJ^atfoepcr  i^mo^  venae  \}yme  filfe/ 
re  t^en  t^at/coinmctb  of  cr(e.  0:  (eke  \»rfd<e/no 

^f«:  Cyfbave|)erbef>ott>eiti6f(XybMneyeforaneye:  a  tot^tfor  Juf f {'[T/^u,'^^^' 
r^"*?*  ft totb^ But3fay  rmoyou/tb6tyetx)itbf^onbnor*t»r30e:  bif b f?arb t|?r7St 
^^  But  yf  a  man  gcvc  t^ea  bloxve  on  tfay  rigfjt  <^eFc/tume  to  ea  rbe  ft^ilit  oo  fu ', 
nj:.  by*^t^^ctbre.  21nbyfenymAnTO>>lIjuetbeatr^cIa.n>«/Anb  cbtl^yngf  of byf»i 
iuc.  vi'.  tftFetbicootc  from  t^e /  lettbym  b«ve  tj>!  dooFe  alfo.  2(n^  ^•'(V''^  ^'?X?'  ^^-^ 
TU.vip.  tx>bofoet>erwyHcompeU  t^c  to  0«  ft  myle/  ^co  wytl?  b)^m  ^"eTym/anb 
tJTw.  tti>ayne.(5epetoi^imtbfttftxet{^:dnb  from^imt{?attx?olbe  requfrel^fm. 
bcroire  tumt  not  a  wfty . 


Cy « !)  Av«  ^ert>ct)oxrc  itie>  fait>c:tboo  f  b«U  !o\?e  tl>yne  iKgl)^ 
bcur/ant) i)ater{)ync  enemy.  But j?  faye  rntoyou/loucycurc 
enemies.  Bleffc  them  tl>atcurf|c  yon .  ©CO  0cDt>  to  tj)enu!)ftt 
[)ate  y>ou/p:a)^efcrt5em  TDl)tcb^«>  )?ou  ttnon0e/alt^  pcrfeni 
tc  you/r|>atye  mayc  be  tlje  c^)>lt):en  of  ycurc  ^tvcniy  fAt^er; 
fot  !>c  maf  et^  h»^  (unnc  to  Ary  fe  /on  t^e  cvk/Mb  ontbc  ^co^/ 
<vnb  fcnbetl)  ^ie  re)?ne  on  t|>e  iufle  an^  on  tbe  oninfle,  Jo:  if  ye 
f^ali  love  tbcm/tt»blc^Io^?eyou:rc>()^trea>ar^cfbaU )?«  b<^ 

••J^ubhcan^jgab//  uef i^oonot tj)e*publtca6c^Jenfo;?2ln^tfye bcfr^My to  yon<J 

t)rtft>  rcntetv  roll/  j.^.  bactjjjc  only; trbatfm^ikrt[)yn(Je  boo )?ef0conotttj)t?  pn^^ 

Z%Tr7iZ^^^   blicanelyFe wyfe^ye  fball tbcrforcbeperfecte/cticaeyourc 

wciv  f onjclf  Ipcf/  b«v»cnly  fatj>cr ie  perfectc* 

]}cn  men  tl^ervi^/ 

to  appoircD  of  rbf 

tomans. 


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^k  httst  m  vnmt  almto.  t%  ^^  ^ 

atye^Jercitnotintbe  fyj^^t of  men/to  t^e  intent 
iJtbatye  toolbe  be  fene  of tbem.  (Dr  eUf  ye  ^ctt  no 
rewarbcofyoiirc  f«tf>€r  in  ^zvmXOl)enfotvtn\}€rforc  tbou 
ijcxjcfltbync  4lme6/t!)oti  fbalt  not  mah  a  tro  nipet  to  bcblo^^ 
vren  before  t\}c/ae t^eypocryttf  boin  tj)c fyna^o^/  «nb iii 
tbe  fh-etf /for  to  bcprayfcb  of  mc.t>eryly  Sfay  rntoyou/tbcy 
|)av>ctbercrcwat^e.BnttDbctbouboe|I  tbyncalinee/kttnot 
tby  lyfte  b3b  fnotrc/wbat  rby  rigbt  Ijonbbot  f)/tbattbyne  al^ 
mee>  ntaye  be  (ccret«/4nbtj)y  father  wb*4>  f^^^t^  ifecrctc/(T)ftll 
reuoArbetbc  openly. 

ir2(nbu?/>en  tj)ouprayefT/tbottf  bait  nott  be  ci&  t\}c  ypocryt*^ 

rf  arcjor  t^e^  lore  to  fionb  an'b  praye  in  tbe  fy  na^o^^f /anb 

in  co!*ner;6  oft^effrerf /becatife  rbey  wolbe  be  fmc  ofmc.De^ 

rely  3  f*y^  ^nto  you  tl>ey  ^aiit  tbere  rewarbe.But  wbe  tjjou 

praycft/entreintotbicbamber/anbfbutt  tbibore  to  tbe  /anb 

praye  to  tbi  fttbcr  wbicby^in  fecrete :  m'^t\>i  fatbcr  wbicb 

+  iR^warbe.       feitb '"  r^crcte/fbalUretrarbetbc  openly. 

t*  fbrtlhiottbvH//  C!13ut\vben^eprAye/babblenotmocl>e/«6  tljc^entv^lebo: 

nc/fbat  oure  beb//  f^^  tbey  tbmte  tbat  t^ey  fb^lbe  ^erbe/fo2tj)ercmo4>c  bab'^ 


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bl^nijf faFe.  Bt).enotIyFcr!)cmtf)crefo^.  Sot  yciire  fat()cr  y'j;?;?'^c^';j J^f 
Fnou>«f> n?{)f rof yc Jjavc nca^c  /5c fore  veajrc  of^im , ^Jfrcr  bourar  Dcrcrurri) 
r!)y6  inancr  t j)crc  fore  prftyc  )y.  ^^e  l?yrc.  5F0Z  all 

^wc.  pi.  ^0  ourc  fat{)cr/tr^ic^  art  m  ^cvcn  balotteb  be  t^^r  mmt*    £cct>  iipnQce  coo 
Ux  t^y Fyn^bom  come.  2:^^  tr;!!  be fulfdlcb  / Afwell in  ertb/  "V^  <?^f &f  txMinf e^ 
aof)it5^6 iri^epcn,(Bcrcr6t^i6barcoiircbAyry  b:cabe/2(nb  lllJr^Xmr^^^^^ 
foirjcrereouretrcafpafee/cpcnaj&tre  fot^ere  t{)em  xc\)^d^  7trewri?ofgo&bi 
trcAfpaeve.  £cbe\?6nortui  totemptocion.  biitbclyrrerfi  f(?c  ocfermngcof 
froiny\7cII/2(men.io:anbyf)^cn>an  fcic^cve  otbcrinenrbe^  jCtn^tblounSIf 
:2e>ar(?.  retreafpafe6/yourefarberinbcrcfIjaIIalfofo:0ere)toii.Bnr  ^"^^^J.^  ai"^ner 
xm.     (inbyetrinnorrfot{Jere  men  t{)eretrcafpAfce/no  more  fj)dl/  fayrfrbHabu^^^^ 
mar.  ;:i.  ^^^^c  father fo:£(eve  yonrttreafpafe^  gj,n^  ^ae  t»cll 

CtTtorcorrcxr>^cnyefaftc/benotfabadt5)e  ypocryttfare.    rc\Tart>r&}  rmo 
5ort^)rbiffi^uretl)crcfacetVt!)ar^itm)>0bfApperepntome  ti  ttarl?arl?  but 
t^at tj)cy fafle.  "Dcrely y  fay  rnroyou/r^ey {)auet{>crereti?Ar;r  *'^*^^®"^^f  ,  «*^ivi 
bc.Butt^ouvvbc"t^oijfAfIef?/annoynrcrf)yncl)ceb/anbtraf^  man?^ 
^c  r^y  face  /  tf)at  it  appere  nor  rnto  men  !?o\t»e  t^&t  tbou 
fa|?e|i:btltvntotf>yfat()ertt>^ic^?y6infecrete:  m\>  tpy  father 
tr{)i(^  (cy  tj)  in  fecrete/(T)alIrctrarbe  t()e  openfy. 
,,  C^^^^bre  not  treafure  to  ^ct()er  oncrt^  /  tr^ere  ruf?e  anb 
^^'^''  mc't^t|)f6  conuptc/anbtt(>eretbex?c6breaFcrbrou0|>  anb 

(iealcBut^abbrc  ye  treafure  to0ybbre  infjeren/w^trenetf  ^S^^ngle. 
tf)erriif?c/neryctmot^t|>cecorruptc;anbtcbcrctbere6  ne^  jT^eefc  iafifiH^Ir 


ffot^/t  Icker  I? 

be-KJyn^le/alft^y  boby  ye  full  of  li^jjt. But  anb  yffhyne  eye  for  l9u^e/boncur 
be  tt)ycFeb/tl)cn  ie allt\^y  bob'^y  fullof  bercFnce.  tDbrefore  0: cnioH^c rrevrar 
Vfxl>t  liaht  that  ye  in  the  be  bercFneetfaotPc Create  yetbar ^f  ^J  r^'^s;^'^'^^^'^^ 
bercFncef     ^     '         ^  9       ^         y     ^    Jl^^'^encfjfvn 

Eu.jrvi:  C tlo  man  can  ferre  ttro  maflere.  5or  otj^er  f)e  fball  ^atethc  J^umc  il?f  vevnto 
one/anblore  tbeotbcr:  orele  befbaldcnetorbc  one  /  anb  [^is  t>et^c0  :  but 
befpifctljatot^er.yecannortferpe  ^obanb  mamon.  2^{)crc  ofccprcrf?!  l?<^J'en 
forey  faye  rnto  you/benotcarefiill  for  yonre  fyfe  w?)at  yf(>)all  as  drl?i0  purcf;»a^ 

care/orttMr^f^HbryncFe/noryetforyourebobby/trljar'^^^^^ 
lai.jru.  raymetyefbanweare.yenott!>elyfcmoretrortf)ttenme^  1^^^^;,  frdyfoilo^ 
atei:anbtl)c  bobby  moare  of  value  tf^tn  raymtnti    Bebolbc  res  fake  onlf . 


t\>t  foulc^of  t()eAier:forr^ey  fowcnot  nct^ctrnpt/nov^tt 
cary  into  tj>e  barned/anb  yettyourc  ^cvilf  father  fcbct^  tl)e. 
2trc  )?€  notr  t>ctter  rf>cn  t^e^r :: 

C  lX>^i4>^of)^<>"Ctbou^^^ctoFc  t{>ou0^i:t6erefore)cculb€ 
put  one  cubit  vntobieftaturc  f  Znt>  xx>hf  care  j?c  tl?en  for 
raymcnt:!  Be  ^olbe  t^e  lylcs  oft^e  felt>e  /  l>0wc  tl^<y  £|rowe/ 
C^c)^  Ubour  nott/nct^cr  fpyn.:2ittb  )?ct  for  allt^ot  3(ayc  rnto 
you /r^terertSo(omof I  in  a!I{)i6ro)>af{e/t»a0  notftr(t)>ebi|5£o.i>. 
lyFc  rnto  one  of  t^efe.  ID^crfcre  )>f  £job  fo  dotfec  tl)c  0ra(fc  / 
wf)ic^  j?e  to  bave  m  tf>c  felbc/  7  to  morowe  f^albe  caft  into 

*  fon^^cc:      ttc-Kfournacc:fl>an  ^e  not  niodbe  more  bo  the  fame  rnto  vou/ 

witl2  rud^ettrn^  c:^f>««'foretaFenot^ou0^tfa)?m0c:tr^atn>atttt>eeate/or 

jjcs  in  t^ofc  cut!  //  yx^f^at  f ^all  we  brynf e/or w{)crt  t«?it|>  f^cdl t»c  be  dotbeb  :r 

trctf f a .  C^lftre  all  r^efe  ti>yn^-f  fcFe  t^e  ^ent)?l6 )  ^or  j^oure  h^vmly 

father  Fnowct^t^atye|>auertcabe  of  alltj)efetf>3?n^,Btit 

ratbcr  feFe  ye  fyrfltf>e  f  igfbo  ofber^/7  tbe  rt^^tetrefnee  t^e  < 

fco(7<tnb  all  t^c(c  tbin^f  f{)albe  miniftreb  rnto  you .  ^are 

nottt^erefore  for  tF)ebaye  fofotryn^e.^ort^ebaye  folotryn^ 

^     M  «'  ^,  0efM^<''»'^«'<^f<>«'»^W^-^*«^*)^«^*^<>tt^I^)^^fwffycifntfc^ 

Wl2irbevnoii0l?  -.   .-^ 

fojtijer  care. 

Xoo3f;ibge<«colj^0^1jgr  ttOtt  If ftf  J^f  lit  tttUgt H .  l„c  v, 

^Z'nl^^^^^^^^^^  Pgg  5ora5yemb^e/fon>aUyebe«,b^eb,  2rnbtrir^ 
vrl?o  fomeacr  iu^  Kj  ^  ^^^^  meafure  ye  mete,wit^  tf)ar  fame  f^aff  it  be 
b^ett?  xpiti}  outt  I^^^Smeafurebtoyoua^ayne,u>^yfeifftbouamoote 
^ooot  cotruunu-^  in t^y  hrotl}cv<i eye  /anbperceareflnott t()e beame that^ein 

l%x%%U3tbc  pJ«^f^^^"f  A"ta>teo«t  oft^yne  eye/  ^nb  be^olbe  a  beame 

bcamcint^eetc  »^«"JPy»cawnee)?e.  ypocrite/  fyrf?  cafl  out  t^e  beame  out 

of  tbync  awne  eye  /anb  t^en  f ^It  tf>ou  fe  cferely topIucFe 

*  "^^ly e .        out  tb  e  moorc  out  of  tby  brot^er^ eye , 

X»?e  ijolf e  H^ifies  |[ (geve  nott  t^ot  wj^yc^  10  ^c  ^oly  to  botf^/netj^ercafl  yt 


ae 


yourt  pitd(6bifort^voym/ltfl  t^cytrcCLttt^tmvnbtrt^t^  an  the  voooit^t  of 
ir  fete  /  anb  the  cr^er  rumc  a^aync  ant)  all  to  rent  you,  0o^/r^>flt  functifi^ 

f  "'^'v  C2(;-cartb  f).t  f I)al()c  ^ercnyou:  6eFcant)yc  (l>dl  fynbc/  gt^^g/^jrc^'^c  ^ 
■^^'-'  FnccFcanbitf{)aIbcopfnebrntoyou.  Jforxv|)ofocrerajret{)  feciitfro  of  tl^c 
^^^^'  rcc€ai><t!)/anb!?ct^at|cFctHynM{)/anbto^imt^atFnoc^  tpoiof. 

Fctf)/ir|1)aU>ccpcneb  yi>rbereenymanamon{je)^outt)j)id;  •J'Swynf/aretp^ 
wolbc  proffer  1)16  (onm  a  f?one  if J)c  a;:cb  ^j^m  brceb:' or  if^c  ^^„^^[f, flefW'?^^ 
a;:ebfr|>e/t»oIbc{)e  proffcrbim  a  fcrpent:?  yfytt^tn  w^i(I^  ^^  ^  i,ffp,fc  rfec 
are  crlc/can  0et)c  to  yoiire  cbylbren  ^oob  ^yftc&i^cwt  moc^e  tocibe 
tnorcf  ball  ^^ourcfatber/ro^ycb  i&  in  I^eve/^cpegoob  tl)in0t/ 
^u.vi.  totbemtbata;reofbyrii;r 

CC^erfore  vc^at  foeuer  ye  wolbc  tl>at  mm  f^ufbe  bo  to 
you /even  fo  bo  ^^e  to  t^em,  ^}}yo  ie  t^tlawt  anb  r^epro^ 
pbettf. 

X.u.pn.    |[^ntre  in  att  tbe  fhraiu  yate :  for  w^^be  i&  tlje  yate  / anb 
broabc  y^tbt  tcayt  tl^atkabttl^  to  bef?niccion :  anb manj^ 
tberebe/wbycb^omtbereat,  ^or  flraite  id  t^e  yate/anb 
narrpei6tbewaie/i»I)i4?  Icaber^pntolife ;  Cint>  feaupc  tjK^ 
re  be/tbatfynbeitr. 
mar. viij   cBe  ware  of  fafce  propbettf  /  tt>bic^  come  to  yon/  in  f  be^ 
^"•^-  pef3  clerby»^e  /  ^»t '"tt^^rb^y  tbeyare  raven^rn^e  xxjolvee. 
'*   yefb^hf770U?et|)em  bytb<refnitci^ .  Qomen  gabbrc^ra:s 
peooftbomee^or  feggf  of  bryercec'iHrfnfo  tv<ry  ^oob  tree/ 
bryn^erb  fortb  0cob  fnite.But  a  comipte  tre  e/brin(jctb  fcr^: 
tbe  eryll  f rute .  Z  gcob  tree  cannot  brin^e  fortb  babbe  frnte; 
ner  yet  a  babbe  tree  can  brin^efoirbe^cob  frnte.  i£uerytree/ 
tb^t  brin^erb  notfbrtbgtcob  frute/(^albe  betuen  botrne/anb 
rafl  in  to  tbe  fyrcAT>berfore  by  tbere  frutceye  f  bad  fnoroe 
tbern.  t^ottalltbcy  tbat  fayevntome/niaf?er/maffer/fbal( 
entre  in  to  tbe  fyngibom  of  b<pen;  Butb^tb^t  fitlfilfetb 
my  fatbere  tryll  vol^yd)  ie  in  bet>en.  tTlany  u>y/I  faye  to 
me  in  tbat  baye  /  mafler/mafier  /  b^pe  tre  not  inti>y  name 
propbtff  ebf  anb  yn  t^y  name  bape  we  nott  caff  out  itvyll^f 
anb  in  thy  name  have  vce  nott  bone  many  myracU^i 
2{nb  tbenttyU  3  f noxDle^^e  vnto  tbem/rbat3  nepcrFnc^ 
xoet^em  ♦0ep«rtc  fromme/ycwcjFere  of  iniquite. 


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l^-yere  ;£i?:jftc  rcqui  CtObofo^^^*'  Ijearetl)  of  me  ri)efc  fo^yiit^f /anb  borl>e  t!)e*fai^^„.j,f  { 
ritb  ^^jj'jf^^^;^^^^^^^  inc/y  w)>II  lychn  him  vnto  a  wife  mm/  n?f)yd?  bi(t  ^is^oulfe  iuc.x,i. 
[0  not  tbe  comaun^  <^"  ^  rocUi  anX>  iibotmbAunce  ef  raync  t>c|<:cnt)cl)  /ant>  tpe 
Dmcnt FulftUeoiTRo .  fiiibb-fcam/  ant>  tbewj^nbbf  bicwe  / anb  bat  \>ppon  t\)at  fa^ 
iq .    ^nt)  ail  gcot>c  tnc  f)ouffe  /anb  it wafriot over  t[)roweri  becaujc  it u>a&  gro^ 
woihes  after  ovt^  gobeb  ontbcrocfe,  2(/ibtr()ofoct>crbcarct[)pfnjct()efe(ayin^ 

fvn:  contr/iric  w^fc  VDl}y<!l)  byltt  bi^  {>ouf]e  apon  t^e  fofibe  / Anb  abounbauce  of 
\pberefaitl?i0/tl?e-^  ra)>nc  be(cmbeb/  anb  tbcfliibbf  cam/an^  t^c  wynbbfble^ 
re  mud  tl?c  veary  Tx>e/artbbcct  v>ppontbatj>oufc/artbttwa0Ox?ert^ron?e/anb 
goo^cwcrkesfolo/  0i.catrt)a6t!)cfaU  of  it, 

bcrVSi™^^^  tr^nbitcamtopafl-e/tbat  irbm  Scfuebabcnbebtbcfefa'^a^aM'. 
Wf?  a  pure  berte.  yn^/t!>c  people  were  afronicb  at  bieboctrj^ne.^orbetau^b^/iu.iiii. 
J^^ctu.jtrv.  3nt>  (oi)//  t\)cm  00  one  b^^'^X^^'^  po«?cr/anb  nott  ac  tl)c  fcribee/ 

feitb-  K\^I^K3  ^^^^ ^^^"^  *^!^^  Mtounta3?nc  /  mocbe  people  fo^: 

■n'Jln  mtnc&.  ^0^  I^W/^^  lowebbim,2(nb  lo/tbere  c^ a leprc  /  anb tDor< 
rcseaUirbtbelaxye  ^^fWy^  f0epebb"ttfa)?n0e;mafier/iftbou  vvylt/tbou 
a  ttfytnesvnto  rbe  ll^ifcAfe^canflmafe  me  dene,  Z^e  putt  fortbebtebonb 
Ehrf; w'Sfifh  f ^'^^^^•^^ ^ttt> fa)>n0e:3 wyH/beclene/ftnb  imebiotfy bre 

vD^ierteSmV'^ 

a^aynftourerfrt.  ly  JP^{^"f  9<> <^nb f!)e  we  tb>Mcl ftotbeprefle anb  offer  t^e  ^>v 
Ue  \»f  fe  b«re/f  F  ti^e  fteytbat  mo(cd  cdmatmbeb  to  be  ojfreb  ^irr  tritned  to  tbem. 
preftcsbarerecozDe  C[U>bfn3efii$rpa©entreb  into  copernaum/ tbere  cam  \?rtto 
c&t^^^  bttnacerta)rne^enturion/befed>j^n^ebmi/anbfayn0e:  im^ 
vet  belevyo  not/tQ  ^^*'{'">^  f^rpaiit  I^etb  ficfe  att  \)oim  0 f tbe  palfyc/ Anb  le.  gfre* 
ktificb  tbeva^airt  ^wRvpAyneb.  2(nb3efu6feybpntobim:  3  wtHcomeanb 
tljemrdvesl  aire  bn".2:be(fenturion  anfwereb  anb^aybti&yv/Jam  not 

*  wit  wortbi/tbattboufbnlbcficome  rnbertberofeofmy  botiffe/ 

*  jFatff??  htiotpetb  l>»ffpf^K'tbeti>orbeonlyMnbm)rfen>arit  fbalbebealeb.Jor 
ffJu^ni^^  '!!^i  yA^fomyfeifeamamarnbrcpowcr/anbbarefowbeei'f  pn<^ 
c/o^oS  ^  ^remc/artbyfayctoone/^o/anbbe0octb;anb  toonotj^erc/ 


6.  iTtat^.  So.ip. 

tbbit.tl)!)en3cfII^|)cr^ctbcfefay^c(f:4oem«rw)tIc^/an^ 
fai>  to  tjjcjti  tb At folotcc^  bim: V\rcly  3  fe)^  rnro  y cu/3 Ijare 
nott  fou^c  fo  c(rcar  faytb:no/nor  i  yfracil.  3  fay  t^crc  fore  mto 
you  /  t^at  iiioiiy  fbal  come  from  t^c  ccft  a^^  xrccfl  /  afi&  fDall 
rzflvcith  Zbrahc^mf  yfa«c/ anb 3acob  /  in  rJK frn^^om  of 
j)ci?cn:anbrbc  cl>il^:c  oft!)efin9NMnft)albccafic«riiirorf)c 
^tmcofi^crFrlC6  /  rbcrefoalbewcpf^c  ant>  ^af[t)in^oft<t\)€. 
Z^cn  3efim  fayb  vnto  t^e  K^iTcnrmion/j^o  t^i  xvayc  /aiib  ao 
thoub<*fJbeUrcb  fobcitrntorbc.2(n^f)'^f^*'^**"^^^^b^^^  r^xCcntun'on. 
lc^ tbat fame  bource  ^  «  captarnc  ofait 

Z«^ar.ic:2(n^  3cfo^  trcnfintopctcr^bot^fic/art^fawcbii^  wywe  (^^'"^'X^^^^^ 
Xuciiij  morberlyinfje  firfc  ofa  fcine  /  ati^  i)c  toii<^€^  bcr bAn^e/  am>  on/bur  fo:  r be  incoft 
t^c  fcrre  Iccft  bcr: a^^  fbc  «rofc/  anb  minifht'b  vnto  ti}tm,     parte  an  vm)crcap^ 
HVP^cntbcerentras  come  tbcy  b:cu0bt  ^nto  l)im  many  ray"? 
tjjat were  poflcffe^  vcit^'bcvj^llf/ari^^ccciil  out  rbe  fpiritee 
tPttt)awor^e/ant)l)^^l«^  <^Jl  t^at  trereficFe/to  fulfill  tl?  at  tcb^ 
e(ar.[i^  icb^ae  fprofenby  <Jfay  tbcpropberfam0e  :betofe  en  j)im 
Itte.V    otirc  mfirmytc6/anb  bare  onrc  ficf nef|e5. 

£tX>b^»  3cfu6  fawe  mocbc  people  about bJm/  \>€  commaiin^ 
^e^  to  cjo  orer  t^e  trater.2(n^  tbcrc  cam  a  fcdbe  cm'^^  fay^  vn^ 
tob«m»maf?er/  "^  well foloxcc the  TObytbcrfnmmerer  tl)oa 
goeff .  2(nb  3«^f"^fAi^  ^"tob"n:tbc  fojcc6  bare  bole6/art^  tjje 
bryl>^f  of  t^e  aier  \>avc  nefles/  bmtl)c  fonne  of  rbe  man  bat^ 
not  trbcre  on  to  leycbyfi  ^c€i>/  2f notbre  tbat trae  one  ofbyd 
feifnplcd  fcy^  vnto  b'm  -  niaffcr  fuffre  me  fyrft  /  to  0o  an^ 
*  burye  my  fater.  ButS^fo^  f«t^  mto  ^im ;  folotre  me  /  anD 
let  tbe^ce^  burye  tbc^r^ec^.  *  bune 

zpar.  u-2( ^j, ij^  ^„t^g^  J t^  a(^y ppc/an^  bie  ^tfctpIe^ fofotccb btm/  ^o'"f  pj«ent>  goo^ 
li.  v,^  '^n&  lo  tbcre  arofe  a  Create  flomie  m  tbe  fee/in  fomocbe  /  rbat  tbcT^^olbt  nor"fob 
tbe  ibyppe^ra6by^ttntbt^are6/an^bctraeaflcpc.  Znt  JJc^hX"  bde^ 
bw  ?>ifcipleB  cam  vnto  him/an'^  awoch  \)im/ (apn^c :  ma^  vc :  bur  /Cb2irVeri9^ 
(tcr/farei»e/t»cperif^e.  2rnt>bff^«^^ototbem:Ttby  are  ye  niftab/tbrttfurb 
fcarfull/oye  en^etre^ttitblyteIfaItbc^  ^Tbcn  bcarofe/an^  wcrkf  are^eeOanX) 
rebufe^tbett»yn^•f  an^tbc(ec/an^  tbere  foIorre^  a  rjrcare  *^*^'^' 
f  alme.2(nt>  men  marpeylIe^  an'i>  (ai^ivohat  man  in  thi&jtbat 
botbc  wyn^f  an^  fee  obey  bim;f 


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(rf)e(!>ofpeUof 

IE  ^rtt>  t»i>a  f^c  wae  come  to  t^e  orj)cr|>be/mto  tl>c<rootre  of  5f«''V(; 
t!)e  ^rc^efeitdf /t()cre  met  ^im  ttro  poffefle^  ofbex))^Hf /Tcr|)y4>  ^n  ^»»^- 
cam  outof  t()€  ^raveeMnbtpereoutof  meafurefcrecc/fo  t|>At 
Iiomanm)>0l>t0ob)^t{)<ttrpa)?e.  2(rtbIot^e>>  crycboiit  fayru: 
0c;  <D  icfii  r^eforifte  of  0ob/w J>at  ^xxx  voc  to  bo  witj)  t j>ctfart 
t^ou  comc?))^t^crtotorm&  r6bcforetf)et)?mebccomc:f^^c;» 
re  X0A6  a  0<»b  toaye  of  from  tbem  a  ^catc  |>ecrb  of  fwy  ne  fc^ 
bin^e,  C^en t^e bevylf  befbn^bt  f)»m  faj^it^e j  ift j)ou  cafl  ve 
out  /  fu  jfre  Pd  to  ^0  oure  wa^c  into  t|>e  ^ccrb  of  (try  nc,  2(nb 
be  (ait>  vnto  t^em:^o  youre  waj?e5.i^en  went  tl>err  out/  anb 
beparteb  into  |>eerb  offcoym.  Zn'b  lo  /  alUl)c  beerb  of | w»)?nc 
toae  caryeb  tt»itj>\)iolcce$cblm0e  ito  ti>efee/':penff!)eb  in  t^e 
ti>atenC^ct|>c^)eerbme/Peeb  twlttterctpay^  ito  t^e  cite/7 
to(be  cvtry  t^ingc/mi^  xo^at  l>(ib  foituneb  rnto  t j>e  t^ At  xot^ 
re  pofleff«b  of  tl)ebevj?Itf ,  Znb  (o/all t{>e  cite  c5  out  /  anb  met 
3efu6.2fnb  w^et:j)e)^  (avot  pirn  t^ty  befon0j>t  f>im/to  bepar;? 
teoutoftjjerccofttf. 

anb  pafjeb  oper  anb  cam  in  to  "pi^  avont  citcZnb  tLulv 
lo  /t^e)>btou£f^tpnto  |)im«^mAn(icFeoft{)e  paU 
fcy/lyingz  in|>t6  htb,  2inb  w^enSefuejavrc  tbe^s 
re  fait J)/bejaib  to  tf>efecFe  oft^e  p^Ifcy ;  j^nne  be  of  cfcob  c^c^ 
Yclthy(mnte  ^^refosyerent^e*  d^nblocerteyneofr^cjcribed 
fatbin  t{>emfelre6/^e  bla(pemetj>.:2(nbtx^^e3e|n6  (a\x>c  tl;e<s 
rctf)ou0^te6/j>efa)?b:wberforetj)inFe  ycexjyIlin)rourc  bert^ 
tf  ;tP^etbery6efyerto  (aye/tbi(5?unt^^t  fo:yeven  t^e/or  to 
fayaa  ryfc  anb  walhiZ^at  yc  mayc  fnovot  /ti)att^c  fonne  of 
man^Atbepoirerto  fotyeref)?fie6inert{>/t^)efaib  ^cx?ntotbe 
ficFe  of  t^c  palfey :  avyfc/tah  rppe  tpi  hcb/anb  ^o  borne  to 
tl)ym  bouffc.'^nb  ^e  arofe  anb  bepArteb  to pi& |>cuf|c.  2[I)e 
people  r^at  fatrcbit/marre;?ffeb  anb  0lorifieb  0ob/n>^i9 
l}ab  iJeven  fuc^e  power  to  itun^ 


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2ua  "v *i"»^"  fytt  At  t\)e  reccyrc  of  cufliifiie  rumcb  iTla^ 
thcxv  I  an^  \ix\'i>  ro  b«>n :  folotoc  me.  3nM)c  arofc 


fyimcrd/cam  a^^  fatt^ownc  Alfo  wit  j)  3cfii6  /an^  manner  4vr4f  ca .  cone  wave 


t{)e  pyjiaou/butt  tbcy  tbat  arc  jicrc.  (bo  ai»^  Icrnc/  pl^anfoicc/vc  2  Jl^ones  tnTf  1 
©fc.vi.  tp^at t^aniieAnct!>/3 b^ueplcafurcinmcrcy/anb  plc?  eftctiic'grf^rc:  bur  ^od 
nottmoflFcryn^c.  ior3  am  note  come  to  call  tl>c  ^<^'P"cf'?'?»f-^"orber\va', 

^licVC^:^^"*^^'"*^^^**-''^^'**^'^^^^"  tobim/laym^e;  crio  asfi^ame/rcbiiixc/xi'jj// 

'u?()y^c»^t»ean^tbcpbarife6  faflcoftc /bllttb!^i|^  ^c/x>€ctb.(nc\}ctcoui^p^y 

cipfeefafle  notrf2inb3efu6  fay^crntot{)cm:call  cienrlvanovpirl?  goooxpilf/ie 

rbcvret)^yn^ed>ylt)rcn  l::^mornca6Pon£jeafit!)c  !^^l''M52?^fr."^.f'^*^'J?^'2 

bWomey.tr.tbtbcm^Cbetymemaca/t.b^ 

tbcbry^c^ome (f)albetarc^^romt^)em/an^tbcn  arrtl?emana(jc/\v/?vlc rlJ 
fl^a/1  rbcy  fafie.  Ho  man  ^  pccyt!)  an  ol^c  garment  br^De  grnic  t  j?  vert  wir ^  rl^r/ 
TOitb  a  pece  of nctt>e  clotl>.  f  or  t^e taf ctl)  ^e  a  was:  J^  c>cfaiDerl?  tl?eni  /  yc  7  £;o& 
yetbc  pcce  Ci^^z  from tbc  cJar^nent/an^  t^c  rent  P  r^ J51i'''^fJ"S^  "^  ^ ''<?»^ 

intooberefldlf  cfortb^t^erenellf  breare/anbtbc  notgoD/r^crmufl  faWcnf/^. 
vo^nc runetf) OIlt/an^tI)€  reflellt  pcnfbe.But  tbcy  tcr  jCl^rftf  ^cf (?  x  fu/fre  pdf^ 
potrrenetretfyneintonewe  relTcllf  /  m^  foarc  neoftjocj^f  Ipaiio  an^oiDer^ 
botbcfax>c^to0ytber.  a  maiiS  "rrnb^  n*"  b""  h'^ 

2Uc. vin  f ^'rt^ync  ruler  /  an^  worfl)ippct)  j)im  fayin^Je :  veo/fc  t  \i>l?crc  iri?n^  fi^f^ 
my^ou0btcry6^eet>  all  ret>fr/bnt come /an&  Icy  vpctbl?v^Tirilfc  fnn^iy  auA 
tbyb«nl>onber/ant)fbc|l)ainivc.2fnt>3cfu6ar05:  t^'V^f  f^*"^"!^  /  f'?<'»^f  mu(t< 
re.folotrc^bun/rmtbb;e^^^^^^^^^^ 

tx>omatt)|)icbtradt)ifea|eb  tritb  an  yffnc  of  blou^  rt>t  jCI?inllD:rverl;tl?f  in  TrJ 
xq.vcree/cam be^yii^e  J)iman^toud>eDrI)c!)<»ti  jj^mad  t(?emxp|?icl2vfiDer^ 
of^)n^  pe(Iure.  Jor  \^t  fait)  in  b<r  fylfc.  3fy  »n*^ 


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(je/aa  cor  crnige  rl^e  bm>  ftb»>urc/  arTbl)e{>c{bc^cr/fa)?m0e;t>ou^()t«t'  ^^  of 0oob  (O^ 
Ubertie otitis t>ifcO/  fom/rJ^y fait^ E>at|) iiiat>c r^e fafcSnbf^c wae maSe  w{)ole 
pko/ftnDfanl^•1Ic  even  t^At fame ^Qurc. 

vpc  clotl^c/foz  the ol  tf)cn)m(trcl(f/anbtpc people trortbryn^c/pcfa^rb  vntotpcm: 
be  l^olDid?  not  rlje  (Jctt  you  ^cnce/for  tl^e  maybe  ye  iictt  beet>/5iit  jlepet^.  3rib 
rncl^c/aiiw^ofairl?  t^cyku0^{>»mtofcornc,  2(6foonea6tl^e  people  were  putt 
fucbc  fpirimaane^  fort^a  bore0/()CTt»cntinanbtofel^er  by  t^e^obe/anbtk 
&^X'ZTh  maybearofe.2(nbtf)iv^traert0).febt^:oiicjl)  ou t all t^ at Ipbc,^ 
olbcfler»^i^  bertj'.  p  C2(nba6iefudbepartcbtbcrtce/ttx»o5Iynbeinefo(oiT>cbpim  2war. 
acbc  fo  fkfijlv  pe//  cryin^c/anbfa^ni^c  (Dtboiifonnc  of bauib/^ave  mercy  oft  ^*i* 
opic  a^l^  tl^ey  xoejce  v&,  Znb  xcf)c  f)e  wae  come  in  to  t\)c  f)OU|Te/t^e  hlyn'i>t  cam  to 
wojfe/da  wcfc  w^  lyim,  Zn'^H(ue\ait>  mto  tl)cm  bckvc'^ctl^atyc.tn  able  to  ^o 
fJlI^AM        t^y^itl)cy(ai6vntoi)mm  mafier.  C^cntoud^eb  I)e  t^ere 
(i^ct>ni\vitl^bitvm  «ycdfayn^e:acforbin0etoyourc  faitbbe^it:  witoyou.  2(nb 
to  carnaUUiftc.        tl)ereeye6Trer  openeb*2(nb  f)cd>ar^ebt()em/fayn0e:  fetf)at 
no  man  Fnotoe  of  it.But  tl}c^  ae  fonnc  ae  tl^ey  wer  bcparteb/ 
fprecb  a  broabe  6 J^namc  t|>roii^f)  out  all  t^at  lonbe. 
|[2(s5  tbey  went  out/bef)olbe  /  t^cy  brou0l)t  to  {)im  a  bom  ma  ^^^  j,. 
poffeffv>b  of  a  bc\?yIL2(tib  as  fconc  ae  tl)e  bevy  11  was  caft  out/ 
tb  e  bom  fpcih,  ^ni^  tlx  people  marveyKcb/  fayncje ;  it  never 
fo  apiercbmifrahel  But(:j)epbaryfe0feib:^ecapetl)  out  be 
ryllf/be  t{)cpoTrer  of  tl)cdbcfe  bevyll. 
C2(nb3ctus  Trent  about  all  t!)e  due  anbtoume/tUi^m^e 
in  t^ere  fy  na^ocf^f /anb  ptccid)m^€  t^e  ^o(pcII  of t^  e  Fyn^bo, 
2tnb  ly^alin^t  all  maner  fycfnes  anb  btfeaje  a  mon^c  t^e  peo== 
pie.  But tvbc^e fanoc tf)e people/ Ije  ^At> pittc on  t^e/ becau^ 
fe  tf;)ey  wercpyncb avocty^/ani> fcattreb  abroabe even  ae (l)C/ 
M  iri}c  l?crveft  are  p^/b^vit^^c  no (bep^erbe.  ^^en  faib  ?)c  to  bii>  bifcipless ;  t^e 
rt?c  people  reDy  to  |)arvefty6cjreate/butt^elabour€rdarfeatre.Vri)erforep:a<: 
reccvetf??  cvac;cho/  ye  the  barvef  t  lorbe/to  fenb  forth  fabourerf  in  to  bis  berPe(?» 
aOtl?eliibo:erc  are  ^„^^  ^t 

rljetruc  pjcacl?cra.  l,^:vri«l  Cftf  j^  (CtfilpW* 

pnto^im/anb£jave  t^cm  power  A0a)>n(?  vncle-  vi.  ^^* 


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0»  Htarf>ctr.  5o.)rf. 

rrefryritee/tc  cafltbcni  cur/anb  tol)f4lf  afl  manner  cffichs 
ncflce/anb  all  manncrofbifcaff^. 
Xtt.vi.  tECj^c  riamce  of  the  jrij.apoflke  are  t  Jjefc.  (t|K  firfl  Simon 
xol^id^  16  calleb  pctcnanb  Znbnvcc  ^ie  brother.  3amc&tf)e 
fcnncof  5fbct>c/anb3b5  !)i6bror^cr.pWIippe  anb  Barrier 

ofalp^c  anbJELcbbcue/ot^crtrifc  callcb  ^[)abbc  ue.Smion  of 
c?)ane/anb  3ubae  ifcarm^/vo^id)  alfo  berra)^eb  fjim. 

^^^  f[Ccfc)rti.f<nt3cru6/Anb  commaunbeb  rf)cm  fayin^e.  (5oo 
'^*  nortin  rct[)e  wayee  t()at  leabcro  tbc0entyle/anbin  tor{)c 
dted  of r^e  famcritane  cnrre  yc  rtott;  But  0o  ratf)«r  mro  t^c 
ioofJfl^epc  oft^f  f)oijf]c  of tfra^el.(5<»  anb  prcac^c  fayn^c;  {)o^ 
tcoctjjeJyngbom  ofbewcnydaft^onbcrfi^^^^^^f'^f^/^^'^"* 
fe  rjje  lyptref  reyfc  tf)cbccb/ca(T  out  rbc  bcvyllf .  J?rcly  yc  {)a^ 
»creccarcb/freIy0cveai0eyne,  poflfefi  nort^olbc/norfyl;^   he^onbctbcfeeco 
rer/ner^cr  braflV  in  yourc^erblce/ nor  yet  fcryppctowarbf  mcntyttcv  r?avcaf 
youre  iorney.  t^crbcr  two  coatf /ner^crf^uee  /  nor  ytt  a  vpcllb.'afenmonevr 
robbc:^or  rbc  worcFman  ye  worthy  ro  ^arc  f^y^  tiuare.  3n  ^  of  goloc  i  fvlvcr. 
to  tr^ar  (iimmcper cite  /or  toonc  ycfpalkomc  /  inqtiyrc  tr^o 
h  wortl^y  in  it  J  anbrf)crc  abybc  ty  Uy  c  ^o  from  thence. 

7L»c.%,  €[2(rtb  xo\)iyc  come  in  to  a^ouffe  ^rete  tjjefame.  Qinb  yft^e 
j)Ouff  bcwort^y/yourepeacefballcomevppot^efame.But 
(fit  be  nottw?ort^y/your«peaceff)aIlretiime  toyou  a^c^ym. 
2fnbTa)I)ofoet?cr  ftall  nott  receaveyou/norttyll^carc  youre 
prco^in^e/to^en  yc  bepartcoutof  tf)at^oufTe/ortI)atdte/        ^ 
OaFcoft^e  -KbnPeofyonrefete.  ^Jrulyyfayepntoyoii/ljit  ^jKa^^Jfc that  r « 
fbalbeeafycr for t^elonbc  of 5oboma/anb0ommorra/ in  tj)e  ^^\^c  nco  rljingeof 
baye  of  iubtjement/t^em  for  t{)ar  cite.  r  l?r/in  fo  moclpctl?^ 


fc^our^e  you  mtberefyna^o^gf*  2lnbj?e  fpaloe  bjougpt  to  trcycfof^bmct  yo^ 
tbe  bceb  ruferc  aub  F^'n^f  for  my  faFe/  in  witnce  to  r}>em  anb  mc  a\x>ne  ptofht: 
totbe^cnryle.  butrfeere  IjeUl? 

CBut  tjo^cn  tbey  put  you  rp  taFenotj>ou0l)t/bon)c/or 
tx>[)at  ye  fpall  fpeaFe/fo:  it  f^albe  ^c  vyn  you  epen  in  t|>At  fame 
f>oure/ n?bat  ye  fpall  faye.  i'or  It  le  nott  ye  tj^atfpeaFe /but  t{K 

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ithc(Bofpdlof 

fpirite  ofyottttfciti)(rwhy<jS)  (peafetj)  in  yon.  Cf)ebrotber 
fj>aH bftvAyc r^c  bioti}trtoX>iet\^e/&nt>t^e  fcit\)(t tl>e  fonne. 
2(n^  t!)e  d^yibren  (i^all  avyfc  ac(eynftft>ercfatl)er5  /  anb  mo* 
t!)cro/anb  f  ball  purr  ti)emrobeerl)/ant>  ye  f^albc  batcbojf 
ad  men/ for  my  itAme,Bur  wbofbcwer  fball  conrj^ruie  vmo 
("be  cnbc/fbalbe  (ftt)e^. 

C[tD()cn  rbcy  pcrfecure  you  in  room  cite/  flye  in  ro  anotber. 
^  fynfflje.       3f«dyou  for  a  rreutb/ye  ri>a((noti:*  fynyffbe  aU  t})c  cited  of  3oa.rv 
Xbrtt  vtj  /  ve  ft?ftU  i(ra  bel/  tyU  tbc  forme  of  man  be  come.2^()c  bifciple  ye  nort  a^ 
nott  l?flue  CO verret>  bo ve  bis  mafter;  t^or  yn  t\)e  ferpaiinr  above  bio  ioit>€,  'Jt  te 
01  p:e>icl?c&.  ynou^b  forr^e  bifcipfero  be  a^i)ye  maflerytJ  /anb  rbat  tbe 

fervannr  beaeb'^^^^f^^yi^'  yfrbcybAv>ecaI(cb  tbelorbe  off 
tbe  bouffe  bechebub:  boroe  moc^e  more  fbdl  rbey  calltj)em 
of  bie  boaf  b*>'^^  f<^*  fearetbem  nott  rl)erc  fore. 
C^bereieno  tbin^cfocIofe/rb<it  fb*^  "C»tr  beopcimcb  /anb 
no  rbingfe  fo  lyi^/  ti)at  f  ball  nort  be  Fnowen. 
IEVX>bat3tcUyouibcrcFnei5/tb4t  fpeafeycilyefbt  ^nb  wbat 
.^  ye  beare  in  t^ceare  tbat  pjcacbe  ye  on  tbe  bc»lT<^toppe6* 

c^^/X?e  cw^  C:2(ribfeare  ye  nott  tbem  xr-btcb  fyil  rbebo^y/an^be  nort 
mrt  marc  l?ere,  *^^^^  ^^  fyllrbe  foule.But  satber  feare  bim  /  wbie^  i^  ^ble  to. 
beflroyebotbe  fouieanb  boby  in  bell.  2(re  nor  two  jparoireij 
folbe  for  a  fartbin^e:r  2(nb  none  of  tbem  botbe  lyjjbr  on  tbe 
{tfcimbe/witbontyonrefatber.  2(nbnotpearealIrbebeci*f 
of  youre  bee^numbreb.  ^earc  ye  not  tbeifore.yc  arc  of  nic^^ 
re  raliie/tben  many  fparrowe5. 

tir^b<>f<>cver  tberfore  fttotofecjctbrne  before  men/bim  wyfi'^yJ^^JJ' 
3  Fnowle^cje  before  my  fatber  in  bepe.Biitwbofoercr  fball 
benve  me  before  mcn/^imxvill  3  <ilfo  "^cnyc  before  my  fat^cv 
xcl)id}y6in^even, 

ir^bynf  nott/tbat  y  am  come  to  fenbe  peace  in  to  tbe  ertf).  2iuc.  jrif 
3  cam  nott  to  fenC)  peace  /  butaftvearbe.  Jory  am  come  to 
\(namanattvarfanncc  a^eynfi})i&  father  /  anbtl)e  bonc^b- 
rer  arteynftbermotber/anbtbeboucjfbterelavpe  a^einft  ber 
morberelai3pc;2(nb  a  mannee  fooee  f|)albe  /  tbey  of  bid  otrne 
boufbolbe.  '  %uriiii 

CftetbatlovitbbisfAtber/ormotbermoretbenme/ysnort  ^ 

worrbyofme,2Jnb  ^etf)atlovetbbii>fonc/orbono0bf^f  «'<*^ 


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refb^rtmc/ii^noffmetc  forme.  Zn'^^cth(ittaht\)t\otthy^ 
croffc  anb  folowetl?  me/idnottmfecfcnnc.  ^ftjjarfynbcif)  -kSntfjefiame  ofa 
I>^dlyfe/fball(cfc  ir:anb  ^e  tf)at  lofi't j)  ^i6  lyf(  for  my  faFr/    p:opl?erAi  n(;^rw// 
fballfviTbeir.  fs  man/oza  Wfcip* 

26>ar.ijr  |[  .^e  rl)at  rccearit 
Xuc.jr 


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Clif)et.(Dii^tm 


pirbmc/reccavii 

pl)ct -Kin  filename  ofa  propI)et/f  j)«Ilr<ceav<apropI)<rff  re^^ 

irarbc.2(nb  ^c  tb«r  rcceariti)  a  rigbteon^  ma  i  tl)c  n  Ante  of  a 

rj>0l)rcou6ma/fbal(receapetl)cre\»arb  ofang^rcou^  ma, 

2fnb  trhofoeper  f  f)  All  ^cpc  vntonjon  ofrf?  efc  lytic  wortf  etc/ 

b2iFc  acuppcofcolbc  1:::^  it>areronly/mfbcnAmcofabifcr^  "*" ^^^5^^^"^*^'^ 

plc;3rdlvoiJofAmietI?/l)c  njdlnorrlofe^y^  iwarbc,        ^^^e^e^ef/b^^ 

norl?cr;  but  coparc 
tbemro/gob/foarr 
tBcv  all  lv^^/J^  on? 

t^bitmmto|idTf  mirm  '^p  :vXr.;??;;tr 

V.  fui5  ^at  enbcb  1)16  prcccptf  pnto  I)i6  bifciplce/l)?  movrtf?  a  ma  / 1  ry 
^cpartcbtI)ecc/toprcad)e«nbtcad)eit^erc  cited.  155  ?  ^"^'f  ^^^^^^5 
Clvpert  Jbonbeifi^cjn  prcfonberbetbcwoiFf  of  c^rift/f)e  fl^o:owoiire  alltte 
fcntrnooofbif'  bifitpleoaribfaybcrnfo^im,  C(rte  tl>ou  be  newcrfftamrt  bero 
tjjatf^all come; orfl^allrDelofcfo:aftot^er.3c(o&an(ti?crcb  kenet^  torecafer 

wa.  I^i  ^„^  f^^^^  p„j.^  tbem.CBo  anb  (htvot  3i)on  trb^r  ye  bare  be:^  f''"*'  l"  ^'^u -^t^'?; 
bcanbfenc.2:i>eblynbfc/tl)ebalt0co/tbclypper6«rclenfeb;    %'^^1'^'%\^'\I^ 
r^ebcef{)eare/tbebecbarereyfebppa0finc/anbt{)e0ofpcll  a^biit n cirpentArG* 
i6p:ea(^eberot^eporre.  2fnb  h^ppy  i5F)etf)ati*  noot  t^  foe  astl^ei  fuppo// 
l)UYtc  by  me.  Tet)  /  2  ^e  l?Ym  fdfe 

C^renAet^eybepArreb  /  3efue  be^An  to  fpeaFe  imto  t{>e  alfojicarpeter/t^is 
people  of  3I>on,  tV^at  wemyc  for  re  fe  m  t\>c  n^lberne^^  i"t' ^™ 
tpetyeouttofearebercapenn^eTOirbtbcTOynbct'obertc^at  p^i-  ^|^^n  /f^,^  f^^ 
t»enryeoutforto  fe:frcenryerofc  a  mafulcrf)ebiMfccfre  ray^  wef^miputtofovf 
mentfBebolbe/t!>ey  t|)at  wcare  foofte  clor^yn^e  are  in  ^yn^  If  i  ijeerp/ fdldene 
l)oufe&.  ^iit  rol;at  uvt  ye  out  for  to  fc:'tt>et  ye  out  to  fe/a  pro?  ^.^^  r^eftiim/x  c oo^ 
pl)et:'ye  3  fayeroto  you/anb  more  tbe  A  propl^et.Jfc:  t^ie-ie       "^^^^'t^^^* 

2fi)aU .  j)c  oftp^om  it  id  trryttc.J8el)olbe/3pbf  my  meffen^er  before 

«*i-        t^y  fAce  trJ)i4)  f^All  prepaire  t[)y  tpAye  before  t!>e. 

C  "Derely  y  fay  e  rnto  you/  Ainorte  t{>c  d^ylbren  ofipomen  Aro - 
fct^ere  nott  a  gretter  t^tn  3^on  bApti(l,  t1ot  witl>(lon^ 


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t^lLefre.         hinizl>t  tl}(it}^^t^k(fi  m  t^e  fyn0bc»mof(J;etJeH^6$frctteriu.jn)L 
Cfeati'a  i3?i^»    t!>erij)C,  Jrcmt^etymcof3f)obapti|l&)?t^eitc»/rf>c  f^it^bo'/ 
me  of  Revert  ftijfrcr^-jt  vyolcnce/aiib  r^cy  r^at  nmh  x>v'cTmcc 
pullet^  It  to  thtm,  ^oral!  rbcp20p^ctf/anb  tbe  (awcpro^,^  , 

pSZvAkXl  ti>y^y^f>dya^/'^hid>m^cconu.  Idtil)(,ti>Citf>c cm&t^S^r. 
t\2ct  tktttfie  m  no'/  ()care  w^itl)  all/ktt^im  ()c<trc,  tji 

tlJfng^cfinUttfeetti  |[Bui:nol)carc»fttof^aH  3  l)^?^  f^i^  ^cttcr^dnof  ity6iy^^^^' 
hvnto<!^yl(>rc/vo^td)(yti  tt)cmMUtt/^cdl  ^ntotf>cnftk-^'gl'- 
i»eey'Jraye:tDcF)apcp)?pct>x)rttoyouA)?e^avenottbafifeb/wc      '  ' 
j}AvcmormbvntOf0U/m'^ytl>(^vcnottfor0voct^,  Soi'3h^^ 
ca/ ncti)er  eatj^n^c  nor  b:j;>nf yngfc  /  2  tf>c)?  f<t)r€/{)c  I)ar{)  rj^c  bCi 
vyllJC^t  fonc  of  ma  c5  catj^tt^e  atib  b  :)?nf  yn^e/anb  tl)cy  f^j^e/ 
bej^olbc  a^lutton/itnbabrynFcr  oftryne/anbafrertbc  vnto 
publjc«n6/anb  (5?n/icri5.2(nb  tr)?fbonic  ye  iiifhfieb  of  ^cr 
4?J^rbrm,  ^uc  r 

ir  K  vh'tff  CC^e&c^a^etov>pbra)rbtf)ecite5/irf)crDf)ici>cm<»f!ccff)y0 
St  dinan  inrbe  myvAckewtvbonc/hccciufctl)cy  bybnotttcpet,VOo  be  tot^e 
tctte .  ^^  or<t(i.tPobc  to  t^e  bct5<t)rba/fo:  yftl)c  myiCickevol)id)m^ 

re  f^cweb  iyou/  f>ab  bene  bone  i  t)?re  anb  in  fybo:tbe^  trolbe 
^avc  repeteb  lo^e  a^Ofte  I  facFcclotf)Mnb  i  a(t{>ej5.  (;^ercrtl?c^ 
Icflc  j>  fay ernto  you/it  (T)albe  eafy er  for  tyre  2  fybo/  at  tbe  bcye 
of  iub^cmet/tF)en  fo:  yoin2(rib  tf)ou  capeniau/tt>^ict>  arte  (>ft 
v»pperntob<it)eit/f0altbe  tfjrnft  bou/icto^elLjor/ft^cm;^ 
racIc5Ta)l>id>|)apc  bene  bone  in  t{>e/f)ab  bene  f^eweb  in  3obo/ 
f ^ey  |)ab  remayneb  to  t^ye  ^aya  tl:ercrr!)eleflrc  3  fay  vnta 
you/t{)atit|^albe  cafyerfor  5obomint()ebayc  of  mb^emct/ 
tf)€n  for t5>c»  C^en 3efu6  anjwereb  anb  faybc. 3  p^ciyfc t Ijco 
fatl)crIorbeofF)epenanbert$  /becaufe  t^ou^aft  bybt^eafe 
t{)in^from  ti)ewyfeanbprnbent/anb()a|I  opcncbtj)em  wi^ 
to  hahce  /  even  fo  fat|>cr/  for  fo  it  pleafeb  t|>e,  Zll  tl}yn^  m 
(Jeven  vnto  me  of  my  fat^er/21nb  no  man  f  nowct^  tpe  fonnc/ 
but  tf)e  fat()er  nether  Fnowe  t^  eny  ma  tl)e  fat^  e  r/  fave  t^c  (oj^ 
ne/anb  ^e  totJo^om  tf)c  fonnc  try II open  ^im. 
C^Tome  mto  me  all  ye  tf)atIabour;aiibareIabe/anb3tt^)'U 
cafcyon.CaFe  my  yoolfe  onyou/anblerne  of  me  /for  y  am  me^ 
Fc/anb  lowly  in  l^tvu;  c^n'^  y c  fi[)al(  f)>nbe  c<jfc  vntoy  oure  fcu^ 


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Ifft^r+myycofeyseaff/Artb  my  burthen  ye  Iy0j>r.  Tb'^^l^i^^* 

i.lRcgu.  2^  [^^  tl)cf«botbaye  i{)crctr<f  t[)ccome/anbbi6bifd^ 

^^  Bn  ^^^B  P^*^^  ^'^**  <^"^""^^^  /  ^"^  bc^an  ro  pIucFc  tf)c  cfl^ 
^LlSlree  of  cornc/onb  to  catc.  tX>J)cn  tr)c  fartfce  j)ab  fc=: 
mrbar/rbey  faybe  rnto  j>imf  Bebolt>«  rl)y  bifdpleebo  rjjar 
vcf}id^  ye  not  latrfuK  to  bo  a  pon  t^e  fabot  bay  c.:i^c  faybc  rfir^ 
tot^em:  ^axjcycnotrrcbctrbatbauib  byb/trbcn  i>c  wae 
imbn0rcb/rvnb  t^ey  dfo  trfjicb  were  tritf)  b»mf  ,(5owc  b^  ^n^: 
treb  into  tf)e  bouflfecf  0ob/anb  an  tbcbalotrcb  hv€e>/vc\>id} 
TOfie n ott latrfull for bim to cAte/netf)cr  fortbcmTt)bi4>^^^ 
re  iritb  f>\in/  Buttonf)?  for  t^e  pr€c|lc6,(Dr  bare  yc  nottrcb^: 
bt  in  tbc  latpc/^otrctbat  rbeprceflcein  tbc  temple  brcafe  t{)e 
fabotbayc/ anb  ycr  are  blamicflTcf  }?ut3  f^ye  vnro  you  /that 

0(c.xu  bcrc  16  u>o  greater  tbf"f  be  tempfc.  ITb^rforeyfye  bab  vcifl/ 
wbattbydfaymgc  mcanetb-  Srcquyrcmercy  /  anbnottfa^ 
..,  cryfyce/vetroIbencDcr bare conbcmpncbmnof enrf.  ^ortbc     r-^err/ji^kM+i 

'^^'••^'^•fonneofmany^IorbeerenoftbeL^eabotbaye.  a^lJ^^Xni.•«/. 

CL2(nbbcbepartebtbence/anbTt»cntt  in  tot{)cre  (yna^og^te/  g^  of  oil  cdmaunt*// 
onb  b€f>oIbe/tberc  rrae  a  ma  /vo})id) ^ab  j)i&  ^aiibbrieb  rp    mctf  (^o^c  fo  yrcdt^ 
3nbt!)er  ajreb  b»mfayinitc :  ye  bit  iatvfullto  b^ale  rppon  ly  il^vf/tl?iir  rbrve 
tberabct!>  bare:f  be  canf^tbeymygbtaccufebim.  Qinh\>c  '^J,ZTn7wbt! 
rayberntotbem;Tt»bicby6beamon0eyou/yf^ebaba  ftepe  ?c love ad ne«^f  re^ 
foHen  in  to  a  pyt  on  tbefabot  bare/ tbatwofbenott  tafil^im  qunc. 
anblyftebimontf  21nbbotremocbeyt>amanbettertbena 
fbepe;?  lX>bcrfor<  ytye  leftilltobo  a  0cx)bbebe  on  tbc  jabot 
baye.  Zbin  (a^bc  be  to  tbe  man;f!rccbe  fortbe  tby  bonbe  /  anb 
beftreacbcbfon!)ey  anbittraeagayne  mabe  evenaerrbolc 
ae  tbeotben 

C^ben  tbe  farife^  trent  fortbe  /  anb  toFe  foiinfcilf  af(enf?c 
mm/'bowe tbey mycrtb  biffroye  binT.\X>bc  3cfii6  fnctrc  rbot 
bcbeparteb  tF)encc  /  anX>  mocbe  people  fclowcbe  bim  /  ati^  b« 

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C!)e0ofpcUof 
bealc^  tl)c  AlUnb  d>ar^eb  t()e  r6«t/t!)cy  ftwlbe  nor  rtul^e  bitn 

u)^icbfa)?er{);Bc^oI^c  my  fonne/tr^o  3  ^^^^^  c^o(cn/my  ber^7ii|. 
lingfc/m  w5om  myfotik  ^at\)  !)a^  bcUte.Stryll  put  my  fpiri^ 
tconbml/afl^^e^palIf|^ctPctu^cJcmemto  t^e  ^entyle.  ^Oe 
f^adnot  ftryvz/^t^^cdi  not  ci^c/net^er  f^allcny  man  be  are 
{>y6  voyccin  t^c  flrccrf/a  brofeD  rc^c  /  jljdl  b«  "oi:  t>reacfe/2 
\\c]cct\>atbc^ynmti}t0  bmncl^c  fbAllnotquecbc/tyUl>e  fen^ 
be  forrf)  inb^emenr  pnro  Picrcry  / An^  in  ^y&  name  fpall  t^e 
jjcntyie  trnfte. 

CC^c  was  b:ou0bt  to  bynt/wonpoflTeffcb  wirb  a  t>cr)^Il  n>!j^ 
yd>  wai56otbMyn^can^^om  /  an^l}^i>cakt>\^iin/in  foniocb 
tbarl>ew{)^4>t»a^blyn^an^^om  /botbfpah  -:  fat»e.  2(^^ 
all  t5)c  people  were  amafe^/an^  faybc:ye  not  t^ie^  t\)c  foneof 
i>avi^;'tP^cntf)epb^rife&bert)etbar/r!?cy  fayt>e:bc  ^ryrcrf) 
rbcbex)>>l6iwnotbcr  Wife  oute/but  by  rbc  i>dppcoffbd{cbnh<^^^ 
rf)ccbefeoft!)e^ex)yHf.  i^X 

CBut'Jefu^Frietretberetbou^btf/Anb  fa)^t>e  to  tb^»  ^-^vcry^Ui.ri. 
*BeroIaf  e.         fyn0t>o  ^e\?y^e^  \t>it!>  in  it  fylfe  (b^lbe  *  &cfolate.t^etb«r  fball 
.Tipat  yo  waJleV  cnyciteo:!)o«rbol^e&evybc&ayef!irfyIfc/cdrynue.@oyffa= 
beftrof ebAbjoug//  f^„ ^.^(^ outfaran/rben ye bc^ev»yt>e^ aycnfi bim fylfc,  Jno^ 
ijr  ro  nougijt.  wefoall  tbc  bve-  r>'n0&d  euburer2liro  ify  by  rbcbclppe  of  bd*^ 

3ebub  cafl  out^cvyle :  by  trbofc  bdppe  boyonre  cbyll>re  ca(l 
r:>6oof!-.  tbcm  oumberfore  tbeyfoalbcyoure  inb0ed;B«t  if3  cafl  out 

^^v"^  a^eynfle  f\}e  f b"*  ^«t>yl$  by  tbe  fpirite  of 0o^:  t^em  ie  t\}t  Fy ngbom  of 0ob 
IMy  gojfr/ydberp//  come  on  you:' 

'^nl%fo%\t^na  ^^"^'^  ^^'^^ ^^  ^  '"^  ^"^^"^ '"  ^^  ^  "^^^^^^  '"^""^^  ^^"A"^ / 
wb^r^ tbat  bybetb/  ^"^  ^7^^«"tby tc^h  a  ivaye  bte  0cob&f;cr« PPt^  be  fyrfl  byn^ 
it)  no  remedy  <^f\\n,  ^^  tbe  ftron^c  ma/  an^  tben  fpoyle  bit^  bouffc:'45e  tbar  is  not 
foi  \t  fv^} retb  fltre/,  witf)  me/i& a)?enfle me:  2(nb be tbat 0at>^rctb  not  rrirb  me/ 
"/;  T^^/^W?  y«  fcatrrerb  ab:oabe.VX)b^rfore 3 fayevnto you/all m^er of  fyni^^, 


ly' 
n?s&e>arfe.  foryepenbimrbiitwbofoeverfpeaFetbayenfletbc  bol/^oofl/ 

*  where  :iJ^atbcw  »tf(?aH  not  be  foryeuen  bim.-no/netber  in  l^y^\X)(idX>tlmt\)tx 
layet-b  b^^e  ncfber  ^mtb^worlbctocome* 


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6.  ttlarJKW.  fo.^i^ 

f[©r!>ermaret[)arcc^c»b/AnM)i6  frurecKcbealfo/crcflf  ^^i^Z'kVtb^ 
maht^c trtC€vyU/7^y& frutc cvyllalfo. ^crr^c  tree  iefno-   ^€it>inc>tiunger off 
n>f  by  ^ye  frure .0 jjcneracid  ofviperf /botoe  can  yi  fayt  vocf  'tn-miil OflnaV ion. 
!Smc.Vi.  lc/a>b«tyc);^oiirc  fclpeearcryllfforofr^c  abofibaiincc  of  rbc    ^-Sviper  ye  aftrr 
^<rrc  r^c  inoiit^  fpeaf eri).21 0cob  man  out  of tj)c  goo^treafiu  ^'?*'*  m«Jcr  oran  ao// 
rcofb5^e!?mc/bryn^etbfortj)0a)bctbyntjf.anbancryHma  ^''ftftJi^JJ^vrr 
out  on>i6  (vyll  trcafurc  brj^n^ct^  fort^  cryf  t(?)^n£jcf>.But  3  ^'v^iion. 

fayc  rnro  you/tbat  of  every  ybyll  x»orb</t^at  men  fpall  (jarc 
fpofe/t^ey  |baU0ct»c  acoptf  or tb<b«ye of lubgemet  iorby  2>cr€  fti«f  pf  fctj^ 
tby  w>orbc6  t^u  j^altbe  iM|lyfi?cb;anb  by  t^y  tootbe^  r^ou  ^^  wojdcs  t  dc dc* 
fbaItbcconbempne^•  ^^fj^^^  oiifwarMy 

GChcanrTrcrybcertayn^JeoftbefcrybttoftbfPbarifeefay.  J^^f^reTt^eff? 
2t^^^  m0e:vn«f?er/wctt»olbcfaync  fe  afy^ncoftjjc.^c  anfxpmb   ts  xpifl;>l?f m  oz  ag 
vip.  tl>c  fay n^jc.  rl)e  et>yU  ftnbabiioiitroiiejjeneracio  feFft()afy£f^  tfnf^  \^pl^/butne<f 
Xac.jri.  ne/but t|icre  f ^allno  fygnc  be^cve  rnto  t^cni/buttf)e  fygnt  ^^^  ^^^'^  ti"»  go^ 
oftf>cprop^et  3ona6.^ora63onaett?a(M^t)ayee/7itjny^  mireofc?arc?b^ 
^j)tce/i  tf)cia>^aallt  beIly:fo  f  l)al!  t^e  fone  of  ma  be  iij  ^ayta   gf  r^^.  ^  ^.^  ^  ^g/^^J 
'3one  r  *"^  *^  "y^!)tc^  i^b^  f)crreof  t()c  ertb.J^e  me  of  ninit>yrefpall  makctbcyr  nerj^cr 
•^     ' '  ryfe  fttrbc  bayc  of iub^mcnt/ wit^  t^ye  nacion  /  ftnb  cdbepne  gcoo  nor  b«o. 
t^cm:Sottl)ty  rcpentcb  attt^ep2cad)in0eof3ona6*2Inbbe^ 
{)ofoea(Jreattcrrf)en3on«6y»i'bcrc.Cl)equcnc  ofr^efout^ 
f^allryfc  at  t^cbaycofiub0mctTOirf)tbiegencracionyanb 
»^•rc0•T  ^pCill  conbepnet^em:5or  f  ()e  cam  from  tl)c  rtmofle  partve d 
of  r  j)e  TOorlbe/to  f^eare  t!)e  t^)yf^om  of  ©olomon.3nb  bepol^ 
be  f)ercy6  a  ^catcrt^n  Solomon. 
|[tt>ben  t^c  mdenc  fpriteie  ^one  our  of  a  man/h>t  walftth 
tj)rou^^ourebrcy  placee  /feFyn0ercefl/anb  fynber^none. 
Z^cn^cfayti) :  3'cryIIretume  a^eync  into  my  ^ouflc/ from 
ttjbcnce3f5out.2tnbi»^enl)ei6  come/^efynbetj^tt^c  ^of 
uffeempte/anbfroept  /anb^amyflbeb.  Cbcn  ^c^ott^  fy& 
trayc/anbtafet^.ri;.fptnrfa>oifletbc  bint  fylfc/anb  fo  enter 
tbey  in  anbbn?cIItf)erc.21nbtbeenbcoftbat  ma  IS  TOorjfe  tb»' 
rbe  be^yniiynge.  ^v>en  fo  0)^11  it  be  to  t^ye  frotverb  nadon. 
tEVDbyli^erctralFcb  rnto  rbepcoplc :  bebolbe  /  ^ye-mct^tv 
^^     -  anb  by^bretbre flobe  xc\t^  out t^c  boree/befyringe  tofpeaFe 
^^Jj-j^vcitboim.  Cben  won  faybc  rnto  bim:beJ)oIbe  tt>y  mot^tv 
^'  Anbtby  bretbrc  (?5be  xvitl)  out/bcfyryn0c  to  fptah  wir^  tp€ 

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refl^f  woiDc  ofrto& 
\o  vfit>etfeoNvfi?c^ 
re  l?it  multjpdcrl?  t 
makitl;)  t\}€  pocple 
bftrer.  wl?ct-cl;)itis 

eiiri»  \)ir  t>ecrca(it\} 
imaMjff^rl^epoepIc 


mor!>cr/orw!)o  «rc  nty  bretf>crefif  2(n^  !)e  fh•ad;e^  fori^  f>i6 
i)Olt^co^>er^i^t>ifciplc6/art^fa)>^c;Bcbol^e iti)^i«otbcr  anb 
my  bmbrcn.for  u>bofocver  fulfilkr!)  my  fatljere  t»yU/a)biiJ 
4?  ye  in  j^cvm/^t  ye  my  bvoti}iv/  my  fuf  tcr/anb  my  motj^cr. 

?bt  famr  ijim  mtttrt3ffU0M 

ouroftli)cj)cuf^c/antfattby^l)cf€cfy^«/an^mo'  '  ^ 
d?«  people  ^cfom^  pnto  l>!m/|b  ^rcfly  tl)ar  l?e  tret 
^^^..  lant>  fatm  a  f^ypp?/ant>  all  tlje  people  f?obe  on  rl)e 
|iSre.2(ftbl)efpaFemaityti)yn^f  torhcm  m(lmilltu^f /fa^ 
yin^c :  be[)olfcc  / tf)c  fewer  wenr  fort j?  ro  fo trc / 4»it>  a&\)€  fo^ 
lre^/fome  fell  by  tl;e  ooaycd  fy^e/t  tl>c  fowllf  ca  /6ll^ ^ero!T^ 
rcb it  vppe.  @ome  fcHaport  f fony  0rouii&e wjjere  it !?^t>  nott 
mod>c  crtl)/atib  a  non  it  fpron^e  v>ppe/be  c aufe  it  i)<l^  no  ^es 
p!)tofertl):«nb  trj^cn  tfje  |im  voae^vppe/^itcavti^  !?ect  /  Anb 
for  IftFe  of  rot)?n0c  tpyb^re&  awaycSome  fell  amon^e  tj>or^ 
n€&  I  ant>  the  tijorned  Arofe/Anb  d)OoFebit,  parte  fell  in 
^oot>e  fjrounbe/«nb  6rojJj)t  foitlj^oob  (hite:  feme  An  b""^ 
t>re^fofc/fome  fyfty  folb/fometj^yrty  folbe.tDfJofoever  fjatl? 
e4rc6  to  fteare/lct  ^im  l)c«re. 

IC2(n^()y6^ifciplc0  cam  /  anbfay&etol)im:  tl)f)y  fpeafefl 
ihoii  ro  tijcm in  parable ef  (je  anfwereb  a^^  faibe  vnto tl)em: 
4f5it  id  0ev»cn  rnto  yonto  hiot»etl)efecrettf  ofrj)e  fyn0bo:^ 
me  of  l)eren/  but  to  the  m  it  ie  nott  g|even»  ^or  tDl>o|time\;^r 
barb/to \^\m  fball  \)\t  be^even;  an^b  \)^  f^all  bane  abounMu^'"^^^*' 
nccf  Biit  w^ofberer  ^Cit\)  nott ;  from  !)im  fj^albe  tct^>^n  a 
waye  ere  t(>at  fame  t!)atbebatl).iri>erforefpeaFc3  tot^em 
infimilitubf;  .?ort|!)ou0()tbcy  fe/tl)cyfenott:flrtb  jjearyn^e 
tf)eyl>ear(not:net5)cn?nberflon^e.:?^nbinr()em  ye  fiilf^^Ile^  efavi. 
tl)e  propl>e(y  ofcfay/tr!>id>prop!)en  faytl):  toirl)  youre  eares 
ye  f jball  bearc/anb  fball  not  rnberftSbe/  an^  witb  youre  eye^ 
yefi>ailfc/ant)f()all  notp erceape,  5crtl>i0  peoplee^ert  ya 


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t^^b  JJroflR;2ln^tl1crcarr^  irer  t)«ll  of  btaryii^c/anMlwr 
ej>c0  ^ave  r  l)cy  clcfc>  /  Icfl  rbcy  ^l)!ll^c  fe  xvith  rknr  eyes/  an^ 
iKArc  u>itb  t[)«frc  carc£^/aM^lpul^;  vnX'rf?on&«^  trirhrlKW 
i^crttf /anb  fpiilbe  touriu/tljAt  k>  fti^^eb^  h^aU  thcrti. 
CBiir  bU|]cb  ar  roiirc  eye*/  fortbcy  fc/artb  roiire  c  arc»3  /for 
fj)iyb^Are.  Dcrdy3fari'vmoyou  /  tijat  many  piopb^ kH' 
flnb  pctfaitte  men  ^am  UfcriX>  to  fe  t\}c  tbin^f  t»hid>  ye  fe/i 
I)ftv< not fc net j)em;  anbto  b^flre  tbotbin^yirbid^yebeare/ 
ant)b*^"<5tbert>etl>en.i5eareyet!?erefor£  tb«  fimilitube  of 
tjje  fewer.  tObf"  A»"5bearet!>  tbetroi^e  of  tbe  fyng^ome/ 
ftn^  wiberflonbct  j)  it  nott:  tf)cre  c  ometb  f  b^  ^^^^  ma/anb  cA^; 


gob/ant)  anon  trithioyereceawrb  if/ yet  batb  be  no  rcottf  in  go^. 

bim  felffe/anbtberefo:ebe  biiretl;  but  a  fcafonrfor  ae  foone  ae 

tribulacion  o:  peifecnqon  aryfetb  be  canf:  of  tbe  wotbe/  by:^: 

anby  be  fallitb.  46e  tbat  roae  fotvne  a  mon^c  tborne^/  ye  b«/ 

tbatbearitbtbe  tror^Jeof  (Jot)  /buttbe  careof  tbii>»orl&e/ 

on^  tJK  bi  (fay  tftilnee  of  ryd^ee  d)oh  tbe  worbe  /  at<b  fo  ye  b« 

m4^e^nfrotfilll.  fje  tt(>id?  ie  fownc  in  tbe  ^cob  ^ronnbe/ 

ydbe/tbatbeaiirbtbe  worbeanb  rnberffonbetb  it/ tt()if!>ali^ 

foberitb  friite  /anb  bryn^e  forf()/fum  an  i)imbieb  foib»Vfum 

ffftyfolbe/onbfumtbytty  folbe. 

C^orb(r(imilitube  pnt  jje  fortb  /rnto  tbem  fayin^e,  STj^C 

fvn^cbcm  of  beuenye  lyFe  unto  a  man  tt»bicbfotret)  ^oob  fee^ 

be  in  biefclbe.  But  trbyll  men  |Iepte/tl)ere  cam  bid  foo/anb  ^  ., 

fotrcb tares  amon^i  tbe  trbeafe/anb  tret  10  tr aye.  iflDbcn tl>«  ^j^'J^tV^r  Sr^^^^ 

blabewa^  fprongerp/anbbabbrougbt  fortb frute/tt>en  ap^  amonflecoine. 

pierybtbetareealfo.Jbeferrauntf  cam  to  t^e  bonflebolber/ 

anb  faybf  vnto  bim.  6yr  fowebef!  not  tboii  ^rob  feeb  m  tby 

cloffc/from  wb«n«tben  batbit  taree^r^e  faybe  to  xl)im  lt\)< 

ennouo  man  barb  bone  tbie.^Cben  tbe  ferrauntt  faybe  rnto 

»>im:^yIttboiirbfn  tbatt»e0oanb(jebberit  t  onbbe  faybe/ 

"Ay^/Ml  trbyllyc  jfoabonte  to  trebe  out  tbe  tared/ye  ^\v\kU  ' 

rpp«  airowitbtbctbe  wbcateby  tberortf;  let  botbecrrotre 

ro  0ytbcrty(l|,arwf}  cum/  anb  m  tynu  of  |>arrefl/  3  voyM  (i^ 

S     »«r 

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Srj>e(5ofpfllof 

ri^lc  a  tl?f  nge  i  cfjc  *"  fbcvce  to  be  brent:  but  i^abtbcr  tf)c  u>becre  in  to  m)^  bc^mt. 
tPoUoe/oimozeoe^/  f[inot{)cr  parable  be  puftfortbevittotbcm  fayinge.  C^e 
rpirct)/tf?en  tlje  goP/  tyn^cboni  of  beven  ye  \yh  rnto  a  ^rayne  of ^  muflarb  feebe/ 


t^clawextlj 

rkee  ooetl?  (r  nor.      tne/anb  byl^e  in  tt  hvaund^ce  of  it, 
K^^£v^n  b^fiife^/  C3notf)erfimaitubcfaibebetotbem,Cbefyncfbomof^cvc 
li^i?  tt e  goSelUl^  ^^  ^V^^  rnto  t::^  lercn  tt>f)icb  ^  woman  tore  anb  t>ybbe  m  lij 
fo.foi  ft  cVungerl?   pecFf  of iiicele/  tvH  all tra^lewnbcb. 
a  man  ^nto  a  nctpe  112111  t^cfe  tl^m^f  fpah  iefiie  rnto  tt)e  people  b)^  fifttihtnbf  / 
nature.  ^ji^  tt>it^  cute  (iniiltfiibf  fpaf e  i)C  no  t^yn0e  to  tbcm  /  to  fuU  ^^^^ 

f)?ntbat«>^kt)'a?ae  (pofen  h^tt^cpropl^ttfciyin^e :  3  ^5^^  o^  |^^' 
pen  my  moutb  in  fimilitubf/anb  xx>y\l  fpeahfortb  tbyn^f 
tt?I>ycb  ^^^  bene  f epte  fecrcte  from  t^e  bi0ynyn^^  ojf  tbc 
iroilbe. 

CC!>en  fent  3efue  tbe  people  axoayt/anb  cant  to  boufic  /  anb 

bye  bifcipleeca  rnto  bim/(ayin0e:beclare  rnto  retbe  fimus 

litube  of  tbc  taree  of  tbc  fclbe:  ^^cn  anftoereb  be  <:int>  faybe 

to  tbcm.  :0e  tbat  fotret^  tbe  gcob  fceb  /  ye  tbc  fcnne  of  m  an/ 

tbc  fclbe  ye  tbetrorlbe.  ^|[>ecbyl(>renof  t^e  tyn^ebom  are 

tbc^oob  f^eb,  (r{)e  cry  U  mane  cbylbrcn  aret^etarce.Buttbc 

znemy  rc»!>tcb  fotretb  it/ietbeberyll.(rbcb<!itre)lye  t{)c  in'C^c 

of  tbc  irorlbe/anb  t^c  rcpere  be  tbe  an^cUf .  Sor  eren  oe  tbc 

taree  4re  jjobbrcb/anb  brent  intl^t  fyrezfo  ftall  it  be  in  t\)t 

cnbe  of tbte  xro:lbc.Cbc  fonnc  of  ma  (ball  ^m'^t  fortb  ]>\e>  an^ 

^Tr.^r..f.yy^\^a   0«^^1'/'^  tl^cy(t>a\\  ^abtbcroutof  biefyn^bd  dUl>in^tHt 

*bTg^rpSl/ xJblb   ^^  b"rte/Anb  alltbem  rcbi^bo  iniqnite/anbfbalkarttbem^ 

gev^  vs  grace  ao  ^ 0  *  fumc6  of fyre.Cb ere  (Tjalbe tray lyn^ic  an'd  ^afl])y n^e  of 

rygbt^»e^"c5  witb  tet|).Cbcn  fball  tbc  iufte  men  f bync  ae brygb^  ^^ ^b^  fnn  in 

out  ou re  beferyyng  tbc  f yn^bom  of tbcre  fatbcntrbofocrer batb  earee  to  bcare/ 

tberctotcxrefrn&e  Jetbimbcare^ 

feave'^meJ^K  C:2l0aync tbc ryn^ebomoff^ercnielyfe rnto ^treafurebyb^ 

ctu:e/a  tbv»gc  cbat  bcmtf)efelbe/tberDbicb  ama  founbe  anb  bybbcit:  atid  for  ioy 

no  man  c  J  obccyne  tbcre  of  ^oetb  z  felktb  all  tbat  be  batb  /  an'^  byetb  ^\>^^  felbe. 

wif b  wojkea,  ir^0<^y"t/tl)e  fyn^om  of ^ercn  ye  lyf c  rnto  a  marcbaunt/ 


^4 


[cfyn^t  after  ^cob  pcarlce  which  trF)c  I>e  b ab  founbe  one  prt^r  ^  ^^  pe arlr fe 
CJ0U6  lO  pcarU/  went  anb  folbe  all  that  i)c  l)ab  /  ^  bou0t)t  ir/  aKo  ti^e  cvagfUon. 
|[2(^eyrte/t[)ef7ngboin  off  bcpenielyh  vnto  a  mttcaftm  to 
tj>t  fec/tj)ar^abbrctbof  alltynbfoff)>(lb«&«tbct»I)icb  ttbcit 
16  full  /  me  b:a\x»c  to  lobc/anb  fit  an'^  0abrc  tl)c  0oot>  into  t{)C5: 
re  pcflcWanbcAlttbc  bab  4t»ayc.6o  i\>a\lit  b<  attj^ecnbc  of 
t^c  wo:Ibc.  (rf>ean0cl6  foallcomc  anbfct)crtj)c  babfrom  r|)e 
goob/anbfbaUcafft^cm  mtoafurnceoffyrt/tl)crc  fl)albe 
rraylyn^c  anb  ^na^yn^c  of  tcrl). 
If  3<fu6faybcrntotbcm!|>ax7e  yc  rnbcrflonbc  flllr  j)efc  t  j)yn^ 
gf  :rbcy  faibc  ye  fyr.Cf)en  faybc{)e  rnro  rfjcm:^  !>erfore  every 
faybc  wl}id}  i&conyn^cvmo  tjjetyngbom  of  bere/ielyl^ean 
j)oun)olber/tpI;!d)bryn0etj>fort[)/our  of f)F6treafure/t^yn<^  ^  0loc/tbel«trr. 
^^  bot^e  *  net»e  anb  olbc»  -Rcxpe/t^c  gofpeU/ 

C2lnb!)yt  cam  to  paffc  xsy^tjt^ue^  l)ab  fynnefTb^^  ^\f^^^  (*^  ct  evangdiou. 
tiiilitubf  tljat  bebcpartcb  tljerue/anb  cam  in  to  l^i&  atone  cO^: 
untre/ailb  tau0f)tin  tberefyna^o^^f /in  fomoc^e  tl)Citti>iy 
fv^  trere  aflimyeb/anb fa!be:tt>l)encc  ca  alltbye xx>y\t>d  anb  po- 
^['  xccrvntol)imiie>nott})y&t})ccarpitcre>f:>fKii&not  by^mo^ 
tber  calleb  mary^anb  by^  brctf)rf  n  be  callcb/3amc6  atii'C>  3o= 
fee  atib  ©ymon  anb  Ju'^ae>iant>  are  not  bye  fyftere  all  l)tn 
mthveiroJ)(ncc  batb  b«  ailtbefc  tl^ync^-fi  2(nb  tbey  t>oer=: 
burreb)»b»^»2^j)c3efudfaybepntot{)em;t^erei6nopropb<t 
wirb  out  I)onoure/faT?c  in  hy^  avcnc  countre/anb  amcgc  hyo 
awne  Fynne,2fnb  l^< byb nott  many  myraclee  t^cre  for  tf^erc 
pnbefefc6(aFc. 

^         ^tmh€h^tt. 

Msttmtv^mht  thm  gpj-„« 

trad>a  berbe  of tbe  fame  ofjefu/anb  \ayot  \>nto  er  tl^c  fcurtl?  parte 

{>y6fert>arittf:(rbi^y&3bon  boptift/bcy^  rifen  of  a  realmc .  3f«»t 

a0eync  fro  bcetb  /  anb  tbere  fore  by^e- power  y&  Wtbber  pertcna^ 

HrcU.  5p:  b.robcrofc3bon  m.t,bo..n^cbrm/<,n^pu«  ZZ'Sff, 

byni  m  prefon  for perobiao  fare/  pyo  brorper  ppiuippt  wv  p^^^      ^ 
ffe:  ^or  3bcn  faybe  vnto  bym  /  i)\t  y^  nott  latrfiill  for  tbc 
to  ^avi  bcr*  ^n^  xoptry^t  xpclbc  ^av<  f utt^ym  to  bcet^ 

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C^c(Bo(pc[lof 

he  fcarcb  tl;e  people/be  catife  tj^cy  cotmtc^  ^tm  Ad  a  prop j)ct «  „  rwM 
CQ^f>ert  fjerobf  byrt^  t>Ayc  wftd  come  t^c  t»ou0l)rcr  of  ^ero:=       ^* 
byae  :)aunfy^  before  t^em/ant>  pIcAfy^  ^erot>c.  tt>^erfcre  ^e 
from)?f)^^  w'tl)  an  ot|>«  /  tbat^c^x>ol^e^cre  bcr  wbarfoe^ 
pcrft)e«?olOeajt:€.  2(nt>fp£bejrn0c  cnformcb  oflf(>cr mother 
bcfoxc/fxyU ycv€  me  l)ere3bo  baptiftf  bcct» in  a  pkrrcr.21nD 
r^e  ffni^c  forowct>mercrt^lcffc  for  ^i&  ot^ce  fafc/t  for  t^cre 
faPce  wljid^  fatr dfo  At  ti^c  table/^c  co^lalm^e^  ^it  to  be  0c  re 
|)er.2(nt>  fent  An^  be!>e^^e^  3bon  in  t^e  prefon:  anM;i^  ^ec^ 
wodbrou^bf  inapfarter.  anb)?cx7ento  t^e  ^amfeU/an^foe 
brou£|btl»?t  to  /)er  morf^er*  Zn^  ^l6^lfcIpfe6cam  /  an^  tofe 
pppe  by^  bo^y/a  nb  biirj^eb  |)il::2(nb  went  anb  tofoe  3f  fu^. 
CXO^^nJi^c{m^ab  (>erbt^4t/^ebepartebtj)enceby  f^yppc 
into  a beferr  place  oiite  oft^e  traye.^nb  tr{>cn  t^e  people  ^al> 
|)erbetf>ereof /t^ey  folowbe^im  a  fote  ontof  t^crecitee.^n^ 
3efa^wentfort|>  anbfawe  niod^e  people :  anX>  bi€>  Jjerte  bjrt»€ 
mcltex)pportt^?/anbl)e  j)ealel)  of  tl>€mtl)ofe  t^attrereficF*. 
tt)j>en eren  trae cum/ljt^bifciplee  cam  to  J>im  fayin0e.C^i& 
)?eabcfertpIace/anbt^eba)^eid(pent/lettbepeopIe  beparte 
t?)at  t|je)r  maye  ^o  in  to  tl>c  tounee/  anb  bey  r^cm  vymyllf, 
But  3^ju6  faj^be  ynto  t^em.C!>e)»  J>ape  no  neabc  to  ^o  atra^  J^*'-  ^* • 
ye:®eveyc  t(>em  to  eateX^en  faybe  tbej^  viito^im:  xre  f)arc.|!J'^^^f- 
pere burvJot>e0 /  mt>  two  fi^flo^^^  ^^ faybe /  brj^^e  t^cm  J' V*'"^* • 
I))rbtl)er  to  me.2inb  ()c  comaunbeb  /  t^e  people  to  fyt  botriic 
on  t  j>€^rafje/anb  toFetf)e.rJove6/anb  tbe,tj.f)?fr*>^^  /  «"^  ^^ 
fyt>  vppe  to  i)cvm/c^tiZ!  bfeffeW  atit>  brah/  ant>  ^ave  tbe  lore* 
to  |)j?^bifciplr6/an^  tbe^ifciplea  0ax>e  tbe  to  t  jje  people.2<nb 
t^er  all  ate  /anb  wer fuflfyfeb,  2inb  t^zf  0abreb  vppc  of  t|^« 
gobbettf  tj)at remaynet) jctj  bajf ctf  full.  Cl)e)?  t^at  ate  tper m 
nubre  aboute.p.tll,  men/bejVb^ee  wemtn  ajU>  Mit>  c()y|brc« 
C2tnt>  fh-e^^^^t  tra)^e  3«rttd  mabe  ^y&  bijciples  entre  in  to 
.  a  ^ippc/atib  to  0o  over  be  fore  bim/  tcbyll  f)e  fenrt  tbe  people 

XbeTvd?M'n  tbe  ^^*^^-  a^nb ae  foone  ad  ^e  f)at)  femttJ>e  people  awaye/ be 
oloe  tfmewae  be//  wentrp  intoamonntaj?nealonetopra)?e.  Ztibw^^mny^ht 
vioct) into uij  qua'/  waecum/be  toadtb^re  |)ime fylfc  alone.cnb  tbe  fi))^ppe  trad 
rtcr^Mtiotcoeverx  in  tbe  m)>bbfoft^e  fee/ anbtraetoofl  \x>ithtpapce/  for  bit  "^'^*'^': 
P«»«^ w^«3  gcvfii    waeacotrar)?ex»ynbe.^3nt^ciiq\wat(i>eoftl;en>^£lbt3e^^r»*'» 

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S.i11atl)cw.  5^;wj 

.  fuecam rntctf^cm/ tt»alFyn0c on t^i fee :anb  tt)|jcn breNfci;^ 
z§ Jr  P^*^  1*^^  ^^'^  walFyn^c  on  t!>e  fee/  tbf y  were  ftnlAfe^/ fa;in^ 

*  ye3fri'^rp^^^  rnrotl^crti  fa>>n0c;bcof0cc^4?e<^«•e  /itiey/  be 
nottafra)?e^. 

f[pctcranfti>ercVanblAi>c:ma(lcr/an^  rbou  bcbe/bib^eme 
come  x>ntott)eonrbc  water,  2Inb  j>c  faI^e  come.2(n^  vo^cf>€^ 
tcrwaecome  t>oune  out  of  tl)cf^yppc/l)e  ir  alFeb  on  ti)c  xca^ 
tcr/to^oto3cfud.  Burttfycn  l)e(aix»eam)?0l)r)(>tr)rn&e/  j>e 
trae  afrayet)/2Jnb  ae  (>c  be^a  to  f)>nFc/t>e  crycb  fay  in^c  :nia:^ 
(icr  fare  me.2(nb  inmcbyotl)?  3ef«6  |irctd?c^fcrr()  !>ye.  j)on^ 
^e/an^  cau^^t  t}im/Ant>  foibe  to  !>tni:  <D  t j>oii  of  l^tellfa^tf): 
t^()erfore^)^^^efl  t^>o^^ollt:^  2(n^a6foo^e  ae  tbey  trereco^ 
mem  tot()efl[>j?ppe  /  tbe u?^n^eceaflc^.  Cfcen tbey t\}at  trere 
m  tl)e  foyppe  cam  ati^  trorfbyppeb  bmi  /  (ayin^^ :  of  a  tnitl> 
tbou  arte  t^e  fonne  of  0o^.  2ln^  tpbcn  tl)ey  trer e  come  over/ 
the)?  trcnt in  to  tbeIon^e  of ^yna3arer!).2(^^tt>!)cnlbem?off 
tb«t  place  ba^f7loa>le^0€  of  jjim/tbey  fcntout  intoaUtbar 
courtt:e  roun^e  about  /an>  brou^^t  vn  to  fynt  all  that  trcre 
ficFe/  an^  bcfou0f>f  bim/t{)at  t^ey  m)?0bttou4>e  tj)e  bor^er 
of()y6  t>e|rureonly.3nb  aemany  ae  tou^^eb  l))?tt/ wer  ma^ 
^efafe.  ^'p^off^t.Tharkt 

,_^-  ^-  rt?f(cVi'oflrtI?cpfy/ 

Vom  mm  to  |fff"$:rn?bi«  SSS 

arit p\}aYy(e& from 3erufal?/fayin0ettr!)y bo tb)^  the pi^mks fct  rl?^ 

bifcfple^tranf0rcf[cti)etrat>icibn3offbefentor6:f  ere  tcniporjli  lucre 

for tbey  wcfi^e  not  tbere  ^onbf /tr^en  rljey  eate<  iferp:cr(f^  yr  faf n^; 

breet).  4^e  anfweret) /an^far^e^Jntot&em:t»^)^^oycalfo  S?mo%«/orfS^r 

tranf^reffe  t j)e  comaimbment  of 0ob/t|>orot©e  y ourc  trabict^  ^^,/  c^<j  ^^vvrj  f j^j 

oni3ffor 0ob  coma^l^e^/fa)?In0c:bo^ourc  thy  far(>er anv>  mo<  pbanfrt^bi/rbciJ  ful 

^er/an^[)etj)at  fpeaFctf)cryUa)7enfl  j^yefarberormorber/  vcifb  robery  •:  crro// 

:acui.  fballfuffer^«et().But)rcfa)re/e\>«ryman^)aUfayeto  {)yefa^  rnon/trbepoviffa 

nix  tberormotber:  tr^atfoercrtbm03  offer/ tbatfame^ot^  nteSnrr!^ 

•K  p:ofytttbe/ant)  fo  (T)an  be  nor  bonourcbief^txr  ant»  mo^  anDnert&e. 

t^cr.2(n^>  t^ue  {)ax)e  yc  niabe/t{>at  t^e  comaun^ment  of0ob 

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CTe©ofpdUf 

lStpit]|>OUtcffccte/tf)rou0byotIretra^lClon6.  ypocryt^VDcH^. 
propJ)efic^  of  you/  c|  a)^  fayin^c:S>i6  pcopfe  bra  wetj)  n)^e  pn=  fj"  '^  • 
to  nic  wir^tbcrcniout|^ed/2  ^onorefb  met\)it{)  tfecrc  lyppe^/ 
ycttl)irt  ^ivU  ie  ferre  fro  inc  ;but  i  )?a)>ne  tl)c)rxDorfl)ippc  me 
tca«^in0eboctryne/w^icl)  i$?Tothyn0c  bufmcn^  precepted, 
C.Znt>  j)c  cadet)  t^e  people  vnto  ^im/cinb  fay'tfc  to  t^em:^ca^ 
rcanbpnberflonbe.  d;atw!)idj0oetl)mrotf)e  mou0tf)/be 
fyIer{)itotaman:[)iitt^attc>bj4cdmctI)oiitoft()c  mou^t^/ 
befylct^t^emam 

flil)encam  t)?6  bifciplee/anbfaybc  rntoljnti:  perceaveft 
t^ou/^owe  t^at t{)e  p^aryfes  are  oflfenbeb  (Jearin^e  tf)y  rai<; 

T>el-l2  ever.  i^etttf)ealone/t^cy  betf)e  Wynbe  Icbbere  oftbe  blynbe.3ft!>e 

biynbe  leebe  t\}t  blyribe/bootf>e  (l)an  fall  in  to  tf>ebycbe. 
CC^c  an  jwercb  peter  anbfayb  to  {jim;beclarepntovditf)y6^i,^, 
para  bif ,d!)en  faybe  3cfu6:are  ye  ycrtt»it!)  ontcn  unberftcn;? 
bm(](e:perceat>eye  nottAb at  tr^atfoeper  rjoctf)  in  at  rlje  mo^ 
iit|) /befcenbetf)boune in  to  r{>ebeIy/anbyoca(l  out  in  to  t|)e 
brau0^t;*^uttbole t{)ingf  wl)icl) proccbe outof  tfef  »nou£^^t 
comefromtbf  lb«rte/anbtf)eybyffy!eaman.^or  out  of  rbe 
{)crte  come  evylItbouc(F)tf  /miirber/  breafync^  of  weblocFe/ 
rr|)orb6/t()eefte/faIcewitne5beryn£je/blafpf)ciny.Cbfr^are 
t^ctj^in^f  xol^id^  befylc  a  nian^Bnt to  eate  voitl)  vnujeffb^f^ 
bonbe0/befylet()  nottaman. 

C^"^3cr»iJtprnttbence/anbbepartebintotf)ecofff  of  tire  ^an 
anbfibon.3nbbeF>olbe  a  womdtt>f)id?  was  a  canany tc  cam  "^^ 
outoft!?e  fatnecoo(lf/anb  crycbrnto^iin/fayn^e:  ()ave  mer^ 
cy  on  me  lorbet^efone  of  bauib/my  boti^b^f  **  iepytiouffy  x>t^ 
xeb\»itj>abepyll2(nbf)e^at»ef)erneDeratrorbeto  anfwcr. 
(Tben  cam  to I)im  bye  bifciplee /  anb  befonrjbt  b«m  fayin£?e: 
fenbcI)era\»aye/for  fi^efoloetF)  v&  ci-yin^e.  ^eanfwereb/ 
anb  faybf  :3  am  nott  fent/but  vnto  tb?  Iwfl  ff)epc  of  tfjc  bonflfe 
oftfraJ>eUC()en  ft^ccam  anb  worfbyppeb^im/layinge :  ma^ 
fterfucfer  mc:^e  anfwerebanb  (aibe;  ttye  not  500b  /to  taFc 
tF]j«  ci)ilbren0  brceb/t  tocaf!  it  to  wj>elpf  .©{)e  an(xrereb  artb 
faibe;  itiftrutf)e  /  nepertfjejeffetbewb^lppee  rate  off  t^e 


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fr5mc»5/trbid?Wlfrcmtbcrcttia(lcr6tahfcX()cn3cfudan5: 
jtccrc^  ant>  lay^e  vnto  l>cr.0  tpoinan  ^uau  id  rbv  \ayth  /  bf 
i^it  to t|>c/ct)cn  ae  t^ou  b€iyrcfuZnt>  b<r  ^cu^5;rcr  ir«o  ma^ 
betrbclecrcnartbAt  \amctymc, 
€Cbcn3cfu6  tv>cntatt»aye  from  tj)CItc€/«n^ cam  nyc  vnt^ 
tl)c  fee  of  i^aldc/anb  trcnr  rppc  in  to  a  n\omaym/arii>  fat  bo^ 
imctbcrc.  2lnbmocbe  people  cam  vnto  bym  b^vyngc  with 
tbcm/l)*l^'/bIyn^e/^om/maynu^/  anb  otbermany;  an^  caft 
them boime  at 3«fw^  ff te.  2(nb  be  bealeb tbem  /m  fo  mod>e 
rbat tbf  people  xron&reb  /tofetbebom  fpcafe/tbemaymcb 

w>bole  /  anb  tbe  bait  to  00  /  tbe  Mynbc  to  fc/ anb  0lcr>fycb  tb^ 
^oboftfrabcl. 

*2l^flr.  |[3be(ud  cdkb  bis  bifciplee  tofjim  anb  faybe;  3  b^ve  com^ 

^^*i'  paffioii  on  tbc  people/bc  caufc  tbey b^^^^^ont^rniieb  tt>itb  tnc 

ncwc  itj-bayed/anbhavcnotbingc  to  catc:anb  Jxcyllnot  let 

tbem  bcpartc  faflin^c  Icfle  tbeji^peryjlhc  in  tbe  waj^e.^lnb  bid 

bifciplcefaib  rntobinnwbece  ft)ulbtre  0ct(b  mod>e  breeb  in 

tbecryIbenK6a6ff)u(befujfy|efo0reatcamu(titubc^anb3^^ 

fudfaibernto  tbc:  botre  many  I0PC6  bare  yc:fanbtbeyfeyDe: 

fcxjcanb  afeavc>efyfll)C6.3nbbecomaunbebtbc  people  tofyt 

bouncontbe0rounbe,anbtoFctbefcrclov»ee/anbtbcfyfTbe5 

an^  0ave  tbanFf  /  anb  braFc  tbem/anb  0a  ve  to  \}y^  bifaple*/ 

anb  by^  bifciplee.0aretbetotbepcopIe.  2Inbtbevallarc/anb 

xjpere  fuffyfcbanb  tbey  tcFe  x>ppc  of  tbe  b:oFt'  meatc  tbat  wao 

lefte  Dij.baeFetf  full.  ti)cy  tbat  ate  were  ii^,  iTI.  men/  befybc 

tremen  anb  d>ylbren.  3[nb  be  fent  atcaye  tbe  pcople/anb  toF^ 

fb  vppc  anbcam  in  to  tbe  parnee  ofma^Hia; 

CtitMClwptfr. 
2^.,.  ii==ijtbfn  rmtt  to  Wm  rbf  pfranffs 

wtti)  tbefabuces  alfo  /anbbyb  tcpte  bi'm  /bcfyr^ 
in0c  tbat  betrolbefOetpc  tbe  fomefrgnefro  be^ 
ven.4^<anfi»erebanbfaibet»ntotbem:  2Itcwn 


viij. 


ye  faye/xrefhallbape  fayrctrcbber.anbtbatbecaufetbcffyr 
y6reeb:ti  tbe  morni0e:yefayc/tobayc  (>>albe  foulc  wcbber/a 
^f-^-  tbatbccaufctbe  fFycietr5beIcu^anbmb.(Dycypocrytf/y< 


2^e(BofpeIlof 

*!Svane&,  ^^"  bifc emetic  faflion  of tfcc  jTryc:«nb  can  ye  nor bifcerfic  the 
Xteft'gncs  arc  cf?-'/  ^* jV^ned  ofrbc tynice:rCf>e  frovccrbcnacio/anb  abrcuiroiis/ 
riftf  woDerfutl  t>C'/  fefer^  afyijnc;t$crc  f^all  no  not[)erfy^nc  be  ^et?en  rn  to  t^e/ 
Atjc^  ant)  miraclce/  5y|.  ^  u^  Lane  of  the  propbet3ona6.6oIcfrc  be  rbeni  Cin'i>  t>e^ 

ttcTfl?ul&ebcDone  C2(nbtr'^enpt0bi|cipk6t»erecometotf>eorper|ybeofrbe 
in  iCIpnftcs  t^me.   toater/ rf)€yb^b  forgotten  ro  tAFcbreebtritj>t{)em.C^c3es:  :^r. 
lEfmpvL  (u6 (a!& vnto r^em:£aFe l)c'i>c an^ bcirarc of t|>e  leren  cf  t^c  ^'^• 

pbarifeeMnboftJjcfabucee,  21{)e)r  r^ou^bta  mon0c  t^em 


nfeffiois  fl?c  rocke.  ^b^  <^fc  yourc  niynbee  cubreb  btcaufc  yt  I)ape  broii^l>t  no 
•Howefe  fimobar/^  brceb:f©ovcnotyetperceAt)e/netj)erremebcrtF)ofc  v  lovee/ 
<oita/orfim5ionas  t»!)etl)crevr)ercp. Vl  l.me/?  botxjemany ba(>ettf  tofeyerpf 
bTcSlS//  ^''^'^  '^'  t>pJore6/tt>{)e  tl;a-e  voereiiq.ill,  anb  botx)e  nu^ 
m<5.  wtofoevcr rf?e  "^  bafFcttf toFe ye  t)ppef t»^)>  perceaoe  j^e not t!>c/  t^at>^  fpa<^ 
tl?i6\vrfecofeflcrI?  fcnot  witoyouof brceb/tt>bc3 faybe/becoareofrlje leren cf 
ofiC^:ifte/tl?e fame  t^cpjjanfee  o,x<^  of tf>e fobuce6ifC()en  pnberftobe t{)e)>/I)0we 
i^c^\^^^'P^tp'.r\o/,  t^at^cbabnotrt^embetPar(Joft|5clex?enofbreeb:biJltoff 
cTet^cotrrbar^^^^  tl^eboctryncoft^c  pbartfee/anboftb^fabucee. 
tmcctndcn.  X\}e  C^^eicfui?  ca  in tot^ecooftfcft^e cite  ro|>id;i£vcdlebcefa:^  :^a|.^ 
ye  every  cl^riTtc  ma  rca  p!)tlippi  /  l)e  ajreb  ^ye  bifciplee  fay  in^e  :  whom  bo  mm  viij. 
t  wcmapcfer.TRc^  fayet^at3t[;e  ^onm  of  man  amf(E!;cy  faibe/fome  ^ixye  t\)U 

loivfingcTbynMng  oftbeprcpbcttf.^cfevbex)motbem/buttwbomfayeyerI;at 
anD  nor  el?o\re  l?te^/  3  i^tnfSymon  peter  an  fxrereb/anb  faybc:  ^bon  arte  cbrifl 
TO  djccket^  tl?e  pr//  tbe  fofieof  tf)e  Icpyn^e  (Job,  2lnb  3?!"^  anftDereb  i  faybc  to 
efiimnooftljeplja-.  l)im:J)appyartetboufimont^efoneof3onaci/forPefbeanb 
&^l'r;f^rno^  bloubba.enotopeneb  rntct!)etbat/butrny  fater xt>bfd^ y6 
nioflrcus  irerpzcr ',  mbex?en,2lnb  3faye  alfo  rnto  tbe  /tbattbcti  artei:;^  peter. 
fln'ons  as  cure  new  2fnb  apon  t^^ye  roocFc3  ^y^  bylbe  my  cd0ref(adon;anb  t{)e 
gos)t)ei>l?avefeyne&£jateeofbenfballnotprev?eylea^eynf?it.  2(nb3n?yII/crc 
'^'^Ln-fb^^^lt  v"^otbe/tI)efeyeeof  tbe  !=yn^bom of  bcven /anb  wbatfoc^ 
ncof  Fox  tiougl?f  t\y,  ^<^»*fbo«b)?nbcf|pppon  ert^/ytn)all  be  botmbe  in  bcwn.anb 
at  C\}n(x  bi^^^  be//  t»batfoe\?ertbou  lowfeft  onertbe/ytfbalbc  lowfeb  in  ^eve,  ^  . 
wareof  rbeievcn  of  CCben  be  cf?arcteb  biebifcipfeo/tbat  t^ey  fbulbe  tell  no  ma/  ojivar'^' 
tteptariTe^.noD  tl^/  rf?at  5)C  roaeSefu©  c^rift.^rom  tljattyme  fort|)/3efu^  be(ja  yi'^' 


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6.  iTTatbcw.  5o.xi>. 

roffccirc  mto  J)i6^ifdpIee/l)otrc  tj)At{)c  mu(?0ornto3<ru:?Yn5et«rorcrcreth* 
fak7an^^uffer  many  tbin^  cft\>i  (emorf/anb  cftbf  bvcprc^  ar  tt^ct  muke  notfo 
(Ice/anboft^c  fcribc6/an^mu^rbcF^lIc^/an^ryfc  againctbc  ^^^  witf^rl^cre  tt'/ 
tb;ri)c  ^ay cperer  toh  bim  a  f>bc/anb  bcgfln  to  rcbuFt  Jjym  ^{S^/:u^'i'!I'u 
fayin0e;majlcrfapcrtby  frifc/rbiefballncrtcomc  rnrotbe.Si>vng^^^^^^ 
V)m tumcb be  abotire/ anb faybc rnto  peter :0o aftermc  fa^ bircrer  ripen r fpe ol^ 
ran/rboiiotfcnbeflme  /  becaufet^cu  pcrccapcfl  nctt0cblyi>ela>rc/ici?rifte0 
tringf  :butirorlMy  tbin^t-  *'"7*?^  10  bevier  rl? 

Cjcfu^tbenfarbctobveMfcipIee.yfcnyman  tx>yH  folowe ^jJ^lJ^^S^^^^^ 
mcIcctbimfcrfaFcbim  frlfc/anbtaFcbiecrcflc  «nb  fdotcegft^f^^gf^nrtmes 
me.iort»boroct>eru>yllfavebyelyfc/fbainoofc  ^,2Inb  tcbo  more  grmoua  ripen 
foeper foall  loofc  b)^&  I^^fc  for  m )? fafc  /  fl) all  fvnt>e >rt.  tDbatr  xcao  cv^r  t\^c  icvrea 
fpallbirf  -.    -    ..  <i-u..K.« 

fo^c  loofe 

^eme bf^  i vjMiv ^yuy»v .. « .^  *;"-^^^»  "^'^  »^"^  ^''  '"**" ' j;rr:r, r> 3ft  roun^e^l? pi 
mc  m  tbc^Iorr  of  b;6farber/i3Pitbby6flngeb/anbrbeftAllgj.j.,^/^^3^^^3'^^ 

j>erct^ar^e  every  wa  acccrbin^c  to  f>)?u  *  bebee.t^erely  3  fa-  fatlpan/  ano  are  rbe 
yct>ntoi?ou/fonietI>cre  bcamon0etbcmt^atbercftd^f/tp|)^  famewort^f  vft^ia^ 
ycbfM^  "<?«  f^(f^  of  i:>beetb/t;»lltb<y  Oall  |)Ape  fcne  i^c  |o^  ^trifle  fpakc  xmo 
nne  of  m«n  come  in  i>ye  Fy n^om/  v^f??!?" v^a"  ^l 

Fe  Peter anb3amc^  anb3b^n  ^^^e-b rotter/ flnb  mai«in\var&e/ri?e 
brou^b^ tbem  vppe  into  an  bye  mcuntaj?ne  out  treeflpalbepterfei) 
oftbetrare/anb  vcae>tranefy^urc>  before tbem.  f^^^^^  ^^  ^* 
Mb^ye{accbyt>  fbrne  aet^c  fun/a nb  by^  clotbe^tcere  <*^  ^  jJ     u  <ru 
wby^e  aetbe  ligbr.^Inb  bebolbc  tbere  appiercb  rnto  tbemo:?     h  r^^^^'^*^^ 
fee  Anb  belvae  talFinge  tritb  bmi.^rben  anfirereb  peter/ anb  S  5  mXAll  n^^^ 
faibcto3cru6:mafTer  bereie  goobbein^efcr  t50.yf  tboii  wy:^  Oeerl^.^o.^. 
Meet  re  maFe  b^re  iij.tabernadee/tt?on  fortbe  Anb  wen  for 
mofee/anbtronforbcljrae.  XVi^yllhi  y^tt  fp«Fc/beboIbe  a 
b:v0btcloubcfbabcn?eb  tbem.  ant  lo  arora*  out  of  rbedou^ 
be  jA)?be:2'biei6nirbcare  (onm/invc^dJtxUu/htAtz^im, 
2nb wb^n  tbcbifnplee  berb  t^at/tbty  fell  flatten  tberr  fa^ 
cce/anb  were  fo?re  Afraybe.21nb  3efue  f  Am  an'b  toue^e^  t^/ 


C!>e(5ofpdl,of 

attb(aybe:aryfeanbbenoto(ravbe.  ^^elyftct\}Cft^ppe  t\^c^ 
re  eyc^/atib  fatreno  tmn/but3((ue  only, 
fE2fiiba^  ti)iycAm  bourn  fromti^smoimtaym  /i)€  cb^irgfcb 
tbcm  faym^c/fct()ar  yc(t)cvoetbyi^vy(iontono  m<xn/ty!lt6e 
fonnc  of  man  bcryjcna^cync  frombcctjj.  2(nb5iebifdpk$ 
arcb  of  !>im/faym^e:tP(?y  tl><^nfayctl?c  (cvibc&f  tt)Cit  JRdyad 
mnilc  fytft  comef3cfu0anftt)ercb/anb  fayJ>cx?ntot!)em:l)C5 
lya^  (])aHfyrf?comc/anbrcf?oreantf)i>)g(f,2(nb3ffiyc  unto 
yon/ti}iit  \>dya&iecomc  cdhtby:  2(nb  t^ey  Fnew?cl>>m  nott/ 
but  bfii'P*^  bone  vnro  !;iin  trbatjocrer  t^cy  Uifteb,  'Jn  (yf  circle 
fbaU  alfo  tbe  fofie  of  ma  (ujifrc  of  tbcm.  itl)c  b»^  bi  jcipke  pcr^ 
f  ca  veb/rbar  be  fpaFe  vnro  tjbem  of  3f)on  b  aprift. 
f[2lnb  wben  t j)y  t»er  come  to  yc  pcople/tb ere  ca  to  j>im  a  ccr^ 
taynemart/anb  fiielcb  boune  unto  bint  fayin0f:nuffer  lyavt 
mercy  on  my  fonne/for  be  y&  frantyFe/anbiefore  \?ejLeb,i(rtb 
oftetymci>faHctbin  totbefyre/anbofte  into  tbe  water/  anb 
y  biou^jjt  \^im  to  t\>ybi^cipk^/ant>  tbey  coulbenot  beafe  bmi. 
3efti6an|rpereb  anb  faybe.  (D^eneracion  faytb(ed/anb  cro^ 
Feb;boxt>e  lon^e  fball  3  be  t»itb)^ouf  b<5X»e  lon^e  (paU  y  ftifj 
fer)^oufb:yn0ebim  bybber  tome,2(nb3^j»»^r^i'wfcb  tbebci? 
ryll/anb  }>e cam  out,  ^nb ti)t  cbylbe  tr»ae  bealeb  ere tb^tfa^j 
me  boure, 

G^TbcncAmbysbifcipIedfecretlyanb  faybe:trj>ycoulbe  not 
tt>eca(ibimotit3e(ii6faiber>ntotbem/becao)e  of  yoiire  t?n 
belere.^02  3  f^y^  verely  rntoyou/yfye  b^b  foytbe/  ae  a^ra^^ 
yne  ofmiiflrabe  \c€b/yc  (l)ulbefayepntotby6  mountayne/rc^ 
mere  bence to  yonber pface  /  anb  be  foiilbe  remere;  Hetbcr 
Stronaefeytb  ^^^^  fijulbecny tbingc  bernpofpblcforyou tobo.But tbtt^fynbe/ 


lejaibevntotb^/ 

^ rbonbe6ofmc/«nt> 

Tttftcs  vnquycf  nott  rf^ey fb^U  f yll  fyim/anb t\>t  tbyrbe  bAye  b«  fP^H ryfe  acjeyne. 
a  mines  ni^iioe.      ^^b  tbe^foroweb  ^eatly, 

ILlCDbcntbey  were  come  tocapcrnaom,Cbey  tb^t  were  tx»o^ 
te  to  ^abbre  poll  mony /cam  to  peter  Mxb  (c^xbeibot}^  youre 
maftcrpayetributt^be  faybe/yc.2(nbtt>benberpa6come  in 
to  tbe  bcuffe/3cfwe  (paFe  fyrfl  to  l?im/fayin^e;tDl)attbyn^ll 


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2«bar.  ^i'^"  fyntcniofxv^cm  bo  t{)c  hn^^  of  rN  m^e  tdPc  trybutt/ 
IT.    orpoII^lc^cy::oft^crc4>vl^rc/crof|lralJn0fre1'Pcrcrfay^e 

3tji.|n.  rnrobimyof|iraiin0erf.5rbenfaibc3efiieto  j)yni«0arnc»  *  .frc.  IThouah 
(Tbc ar tbetl^Wbrcn -k  frct^crcrr^clctlclcf]  t>pc |l)ulbc  offcb<  /Cl^nd  uvrcfre yet 
rbem/fi(o to  tbc  fee (inb caftc  in ti>ym  an^yil/ant tah  rljc  fyf^  g'*^^^  '?5  trYt^wre fci 
f^etbat  frrflc5mct^rppe:anbTrbcn  tbou  ^aft  opcncb  bi'e  feovad!S'^n^'''*'i 
ftiouti)/rbou  fftalt  fynbe  Apecc  cf jcq.pencc  r^«r  tafe  anb  pa^  frei  aUrbrnit'^sD 
f€  for  nte  anb  tbe.  ^  ^  r cy ny^ng  to  l^is  n  ^o 

Ibf  Um  tvm  x\]t  utfripl^  isa^Ct;?. 

cam  to 3cfudfa)>in0e:tDbo  ierfocgreatcffin  tbc  !j^''l^*/55''^^^T'^, 
fyn0bemofbcre-3cfuecaIIebad)Hbepnto!>im/  ^^^^^^^^^^  wt«?«U 
Afibfetbiniinrbe  mybbf  of  tl)cm  anbfaybe:t)cj; 
cdy  3  fay  evnto  youATrccpte  yt,  tourne/  anb  become  ae  ^iU 
t>rc/y€ccinctcntrc  m  to  t^c  Fyn^bo  of  beve:  wb^f^"**"  ^b^  te* 
fore ;  fball  fubmjrttbim  (ylfiaetifye  chylbe/be y&  t^e  0rea* 
teflintbef)rn0bom  ofbcvcm  2tnb  u?bofoc\jcr  recearetb  fu^ 
2Jbar.  ^^  ^  cbylbe  in  mj?  name  /  receavetb  me .  But  T»bcfoet?er 
ix!  offcnbe  wone  oftbcfelytcIlond/iDbicb  bclcvc  m  me;irtrere 
24Ujrvt|  better  for  bmi  /tbat  amyllffonc  u'ere  b*ingjcb  aboiite  by* 
necFe/anb  tbatb^  trerebrounebintbcbeptb  of tbe fee.  Wo 
be  rnto  tbe  worlbe  be  caufc  of  zvyll  occafionij.  3*^  »*  neccf=s 
fary  tbat  eryll  occafibno  begercn/nexxrtbt'lcffetrobe  totbaf 
man/by  t»bom  ecyli  occa|ion cdm€tf>,XV^crfov€  yft^y  bo^ 
nbe/ortby  fote/^cretbe  an  occafion  of  erylhcur  bmi  off/ 
M'b cafi  b»m from  tbe.^fj't  ie better  fortbetoentrc  into  lya 
febalt  or  may  meb/ratbertb  en  tbou  fbnibcfl  barin0e.tj.bv>* 
bee  or.tj.fcte/becafieintoeverlaf?in0cfyre.2inb  yfalfo  tby^ 
ne eye  offenb  tbe/plucf e  bini  out  an^  cafl  bim  from  tbe.it  io 
Zii.rv.  bctcr  for  tbe  /to  tntrein  tolyfe  witbwcneye/tbem  barm^e 
if.cyeetobccafteinto  bellfyre. 

C^etbatyebefpifenottron  oftbefelityllwone.  yor3(a:5 
yerntoyou/tbat  in  beretbere  an^ebbebofbctbefaccot  my 
fatber/tt»bid>  ie  i  bet»c.  ye  An\>  tbe  fone  of  ma  ie  come  to  fat>e 
t^at  vo\)id)i&lop<,^ovc(t^ynhye  .^fa ma  b*»b  an bobre^ 


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^5?  anb  nyjtc  in  tl)c  momayne^  /  aitb^jo  anb  fc  f c  t{)At  wo  trfjicJ? 
ie  ^one  afirayc:!yf ^it  ^appet^at  ^c  ffnbe  him/  verelf  3  faye 
pnro  ^ou/hcrcioyfa^  more  of  tj)at  (T)cpe/r|)eof  t^c  nynty  anb 
nyrte/t»J)i4?  went  nott  a|Tra)?e.5Ex?en  |b  tilt  ie  nott  t^c  wjrll  cff 
yourc  farl^cr  in  f>ex?en /  tf)«t  tpon  off  t^i&  little  xoono  ftulbe 
fcrifjje. 

(E  iTTore  over  yftl}y  brorbcr  trefp<i6  ayenfi  t^e.  (5o  anb  rcU 
!)im  ^i6  faut  bittrcne  t)im  anb  tbc  alone.yf  !>c  ()e«rc  t^e/t!?ou 
^A-fItt?cnetl;)?brotber:bnttifl)e|>earet|)enort  t^cntafctpitb 
t^e  i.or.ij.t^^itin  t\}s  mout^  cf  ii*orAq.wixmf[c&/ all  fayin^f 
maycflonbc.  yf^ebearenot  tj)em/teIl{)itt?ntot^e  cd0rc0a^ 
cion.)(>fbeI)care  nott  t^e  con^re^acion/taFe  ^im  ae  an  ^etljen 
m an  anb  ae  a  pnbliun.  t>erel)?  3  fa)?  e  rnto  yon  tDf>arfo ever 

*berc all bynbeanb  y^^y^^"^^ on ert!)/f^albebo«nbein^eren»  ^nbtr^atfoevcr 

loto  fc.  ye  lofe  on  erti>/|^aibcIo(cb  in  f>eren, 

|[2i^ayn  3  fay e  vnto  yon  t!>at  if  ii  of  yoo  f f>an  a^e  m  ertj) 
ineny  manert{)in0e  t»l>ar  foerer  t^cyfpall  bcfyrc :  i^itfpdU 
^event^emofmyfabertp^ie^isin  j>even.  ^ortr^ercij  onij 
are £(abbreb  to  ^ybber  in  my  name/tl>cre  am  3  tn  t^c  mybbf 
cfft^cm. 

ILC^cn  cam  peter  to  ^im/anb  faybe:maficr  /  j)0tre  oftc  ff)all 
my  brotber  trefpa^  a^cynf!  mc/m'!>  3  n>^W  forycre  l;ym; 
(bfcdl  3  former e  {>im  rtj^tymee^  3^f"^  f^y^  t^nto  Ijim:  3  (^^T^ 
not  vnto  tl^evrj^tymt^tbut  fcvynty  tymc^  fcryn  tymee.S'l^ere 
fore  iet^efyn^bom  of  (>c\?enIyFncbrntoa  artaym  Fyn^e/ 
taj&ic^  wolbctaFe  a  coimrf  of  l)i0  fcrvavntf/  anb  xvl)c  l>e  i^ab 
bi^mto  rerfen/t»onwa6brou0^tpnro^im/w^id>  on^l)t 
i}\mtcn  tl)Oufanbe  talcmtf  ;butTOlK"^<^^^bnougf>t  topa^ 
yc/t^c  lorbe  comaimbeb  l)im  to  be  (olbe/anb  ^ie  tryffe  /  anb 
{)i0  cbilbrcn :  an'b  all  t^ at  |)e  h^a'^  /  anb  payment  to  be  mabe. 
C^efervauntfcllboune  anbbefon^^t^im  fayin^e:  0yr/ye^ 
vc  mere(pytc/anb  3  o?)^n  payc^it  every  vcifyt,  il)m  ^abtbe 
loibe  py>ttc  on  t^e  (crraunt/anb  lowfcb  l)im  an':^  forgave  t)tm 
tjjebetr^ 

G;2^«r<ifne  ferraunt  went  out  anb  founbe  tvoneof  ()i£>  felc^ 
tt>e^/w^ict?oti0l)t|)imanl)unbreb  pmc€,  Zn'bky'bc  l;onbf 


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So.xp* 


en  !>ym/«nb  to Fc  l>i  b^  t j)e ttrootc/fayin^c:  paye  rbftt  tj^ou 0^ 
xrc|l.2Iiit>  ^i&  fclotrcfcllboune/anb  bcfoughtbf^K^T^ng^* 
l^&vcpAcicnccwit^  m<c/avit>3wy\[  pays  ti}€  all.anb  ^e  t»oltf 
^c  not/but  u?fmanbcafr(?im  into  prefon/ryll  bf  fhuIbcpAj^c 
t^c  bet.  tP^cnbie  otbcr  felottJcefatpe  wb^Jttcae  bone /tbff 
trcrcrcry  fory/anbca  ttclbcrnto  tbcrclorbc  alltbaf  bftb 
^(Xpcncb.JbetbcIorbecaUcb^vm/anbfatbc  vntohyw,(0  v^ 
»)>urerx)fturtr/3for0apctbeaU  t{)atbct/bc  cauff  tboupra)^^ 
bcflme:  Q^aeitnotmcrealfo/tbat  tboun^uIbcftpAvcbab^ 
be  compafllcn  no  t  h)>  fclotre/c  pen  ae  3  ^b  p)?ttc  on  t^ii  anb 
bi^lorbe  tras  wrootb/  anbbcly  crcb  \ym  to  t^ijoyltre  /tpH 
be  (l)ulbe  pare  all  tbat  traebue  re  b^wt.  0ol)?fe  wyfe  fl)an 
youre  bc>?«ttlr  fatbcr  bo  rnto  ^ou/^fyc  tt»)?U  not  for^eve  u?ub 
yourebcrttf/eacbetron  to  bi^brorbcrtberetrefpafcd* 


€i}tm*€U}^m. 


iBU  tii«  folomttijohm  Jttm 

b<tbbefi?ny(Tbcbe  tbofefAyin^f/be  gxthym  from 
^alik/anb  ca  in  to  t\)c  ccoftf  of  ietrry  berSbe  3oi^ 
^a/diib  mocbe  people  folotr  cb  bitti/anb  ^c^talyt 
tbctii  tbcare. 

C^b^ncani  t?nto  bimtbe  pbanfee  to  temptc  brttt/anb  (Aibt 

to  brmryehitlawfijU  for  a  mctn  to  ptitt  a  wayc  l)iBwyf€  for 

all  manerof  caufeef  ^e  anftrereb/anb  faybe  rnto  t^e^i^ave 

yt  not  rebbe/botre  tb«  be  trbic^  mftbc  ma  at  t^c  be^ynnyn^ 

0e/mabe  tbem  man  anb  tromanif  anb  faibe:for  t^y&  tbin^c/ 

(Bene.i.  ft^ail  a  ma  Icve  fatbcr  ^"^  mother  /  anb  ckvc  rnto  by&wj^fc/ 

am>  q.  finb  tbey  rtrayne  (^albe  iron  fteffbctPb^rforc  not»c  arc  tifiy 

not  tirafnc/biitu?5flc(Tbe.£etnot  man  therefore  put  afuns: 

^^yj  ber/rbattrbicbcjobbatbcuppleb  to  ^ybber.vEbcn  faybe  tbe^ 

x):i\i(J^^y^^'^hy^y'^  mofee  comaimbe  to^cve  untobcr  atcfh:? 

moniaUofbirorfmet/ anb  to  put  ber  a  iraye^f  In((ar'^c  rnto 

theimofeebecaufcoftbe  -k  b^rbnee  ofj^oure  bcrttf  fuffrcb 

7011  to  pur  atpay^e  jpoure  try reerBut from  tbe  be^jr nnvn^e  bit 

WA6  not  fo.  3  Cf^y^  tbereforc  rnto  you/irbofoercrputtctb 

ft 


*2^arbne6.Xa  wed 
pmirt  7  fuffcr  manf 
ri?fngf/roaretbca 
woifTc  fconrenfencf 
op^i'cl?  so^  vuili  iu^ 
tJgcipuiitntc. 


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(mother/  breafett)  tPcblocFc^  ^nbtDbofoeper  marict|>  [>er 
i»J)id>  Id  bttjorfcb/  boti)  corny  t  abvourry, 
dCbc  fpaFe  ftb  bifciplce  to  ^ini:)>f  tj)c  matter  ^e  fo  betnjcfie, 
ma  anb  xr)7ffe/t|>cn  ye  it  not^cob  to  mAry..f5cfaibe  rnto  tl)e; 
afl  mm  cannot  atpaye  t»it^  t^at (ayin0e:butt j)cy  to  txjfjcm 
It  i60eve.t|)ere  are  4)afce/trt>id>  were  fo  borne  out  oftf?e  mo* 
^STelveeXfee tl?^  rf>fre 6eny.2(nb tbereare  e^afte/tcj>i<l> be mabe cl>afle of nic. 
r^Dc  f fjaftire  mufte  2(nb  tl?cre  be  d}Afl€/xx>l>id>  ^axre  mabe  t|)e  -k  fe bee  ^afu  for 
be  gofliY  vnOcrftoD  t^e  Fy n^bom  of f)epee  faFe.^c  t5)at  ca  tah  it ktt  ^m  tah  it.  ^ 
teSated^  C2:^en r^cre  bro«0j,ttol;ym  yongfc  .^yibrcnMar be  fm.U>e |V^ 

witl?  t^e  fecotiDe/  3^f"^frvbe pntotbemjfuffret^e d;ylbrc /anb forbib r{)e  not 
yobic\}  is  ourwan>e  to  come  to  me/for  rnto  fuclSe  belon^erb  tbe  fyngbo  of  beven, 
Itlicfuiltie  2(nbtpJ)en  be  ^ab  put  I?  iebonb-f  on  tbe/bebepartebtbence» 

C.'^intf  be^olbewoca/anbfaibe  x>nto^im;0oobma(!er/a»{)At 
(:>i5oo&e.^0j€b//^^^^^'^^fi>^^^3^^/^^*^3mayebapeeternaUl)>fef^cfa 
rid fpeakerf?  '^o.vij  ^c  t)ntb  ^im;  vo^y  culkfi tbou  me  C^ gcobf t^ ere  ie>  none ^a>b  luc.jrt>iij. 
m^Doctnne^enott  b«ttro/anbtbattd^ob»Buttt[)ou  wilt  entre  in  to  lyfe/Fepe 
m)f D£ttrme/c<'enro  tbecomaimbme"tf.|5efaibe:tPbJ<*^2rnb  3^fii^  faibetthou 
notac^r>%lh^^^  jpalt not  FylUboiijb aft  not  brcafe  webroocFe,  tbou  fbaltnot 
kerl?  of bi^l?innan^  !tefe;tboiifi)altnot  bere  falce  trirnc6,l;onoure  t^y  farber  anb 
ite/x»l?erexpit[?^e  motbcnanbtbou|])a!tlorc  t}}p\t  ne0bboMr  adtby(yife:tf)e 
ever  lee&etf?  v^too  yon^emanfaybex>nto^)?m;3P^^^<^5f^^^^^l^^^^r'^  tbin^f 
S<>^'  f^om  myyut^/tt>^atl)at?evmorctobo;3eruefarbvntobnti: 

'i'.'tscrfcctneeiepp^^  yf  tbou wyft be  ^  perfecte/  j|ooanb(ent{>attbouj)afl/  anX> 
eri^  tl?e  kepjnge  of  ^^^^  ^^ t^  {he porrc/anb tboufDaltbape treafure  in  bcvc/anb 
therVotTbTJpv^^^^  ^^"^^^^^  folotteme:  tr^ent!>e^o^enta{)erbetbatfayin0e/ 
rerb  cvtoentlv /tf?ar  ^c t»cnt  avoa^pt  momyn^e.for Ijc  l>at>  Create  poffeffione. 
tfyi  man  l?abbe  not  CS^fw^f^^^^^ct^envnto  ^iebifcipkeiVivd^  3faye  rnto  )?oii 
fulfillcD  goDt)f 6  ca^  a  rydre  man  f^alf  tritb  biffrculte  cntre  into  tf)e  fyn0t>om  of 
maunbemcttgrou//  j)cvcn.2(nb  moreover  3  fayevnto  you:  itid  eafycrfora  ca^ 
T^^V^^X'u^iSfi  n^«'^  f^  0ot{>rou0|)t|>ceyeofanebfe/tf>en  for  ary^jc  ma  to 
bfur^^^&bc  ^^^^^  '"f^^N  l^yn^bomof  bcpen-tPbenbyebifcipIedbcrbe 
pntrefbf(>:tbevnco  tbat/tbeyweree;:cebin0l)^amafeb/fayin0e:Trbot|)cn  canbe 
b^mf  cberigbt  \»o^  fareb^3ffu6  bc()dbetbem/anbfaybe»ntot|)em  :mtj)  men 
2keolfrbecomaut);  tl;je)7ernpo(fyble/butwitl)0oballtl)in0f  arepoffyble* 


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S.iJTAtbciD.  Jo.xrii 

"ifi^ar.r.C^be"  anj  wcr€bpercr/an^fa^^ctol>>♦m:Be!>oI^c  tt»el)rt^. 

lu.jruiiij.  ucforfaFcnall/anb  bare foIoxDeb the;  trhat  ftalf  i»c  have  »Tic"t/flnbuib0rt(^ 

*^ri?'''"^''f ^r^^rr^^'^  3fa).emto^o«/rf>at  J^JI.rcVl^tv''^^ 

ycAroto?  f>ax)c  folotrifb  mem  tpcfccoi ibe  gcncrocion  C  tcj^cn  of x»l?ore  nob:r rl?ie 

t^€  fcmit  off  matt  ft)aU  fyt  in  tl)C  fearc  of  f)b  mai.f^O  0!)*^  Tongc  ma  wap/m 

(vtolfo  pppofi  rt.fearf/anb  iub0etl)ert.tiT6f  of  ifraM.  fbAllaiUl?crbcrafe 

3nbtD^ofoet>crforfafctHo»iflrc/o:bret{)rert/orfF((cr0/otbcr  ^"^^ Rfp<^go^f  co// 

farbcr/ormotl)cr/orTryfc/ord>j;lbrcn/orIypcIob/  form|^  mauncmcnrf. 
namcefaFe/t^e  famefjDall  rcccarc  an^unbrcbfoofoc/  anb 
(^oll  m^cr)^:  epcrla/lm0?  I)>fc,  Wan^  t^atU  fyvfi/ft>a\bt  laf! 
anb  tt^i  la/^e/fhalbc  fyrf?, 

(Dt  rfif  Kpitgtom  of  fittjot  t'0 

rarbc.2lnb Ijcagreeb wrtj) t{)claborcrf for apc^  Sciexpee/tif.ia (^. 
ny  abayc/  Ciw>  fcnt  tF)c  in  ro  bye  p yrt j^arbe  .  2f nb  he  rret  oitt  ^qaa  rf/iii . at r  afrcr 
aboutc  t()e  tl)irb  b^"»*<^/^rtb fat»c  other  (lonbin^c  yble  in  rb^   '^'"5  ^^^'^  T*  ^^.'^ 
mftrFerplacc/anbfaiberntotj;em:0o)>eaIfointomjr  pync   tntbtbctn/aovue 
yarbe  /anb  «»b<^ffo«v^r  V^n^bt/  3  wyl  I^cve>^ou.anb  tbey  ^^^"^^^* 
wa)ttl}crcway€.  Z^aync  \)i wint  onr  about  tbe  vi. anbii:. 
i>ourc/anb  t>yb  lyF  tpy  fe.  3nb  be  went  out  about  tl)c  elcrcntb 
^oure  anbfounbc  otbcr  flonbin^eybcK/anbfaibcpnro  tbcm 
iPbyf^onbeycbcrc  alltbcbayeybd^tbcyfaibf  vtxto  ^pn;bc 
catifc  no  man  batb  b^f  eb  v&.^i.  (aibe  to  them:  ^oyc  alfo  in 
to  my  vyn€ycivb€/ant>wl^at(oiVir^a\b€ry^\)t/tl)ati!i)aU 
yereccavc. 

C[tPb«"  cvtnvoae  come/tbdorbc  oftbevyneyarbe  /  foibe 
imtobt6|Ictrarbe:caU  tbeloborerf /anb^ctb«m  thereby* 
rc/becjynnyn^e  atttbelafltyllrbou  comcto  tl)C  fyrft.  'Znb 
tbey  xrbicb  trcre  b^f^b  about  tbe.;ti.bourc/cam  anb  recea* 
peberery  man  a  pcny,  STbcm  cam  tbc  f)?r(i/fuf  pofmgc  that 
tl^cy  fl)u(bc  receapc  more/anbtheylyFe  opije  reccareb  every 
man  a  peny.  2Inb  trben  tbey  l)a'b  rcceavcb  hit/tbey  ^rub* 
0eb  a0aynfl  tbe  gcob  man  o(f  ti)e  bcwflc/faymge ;  ^^b^f^ 

^7 


trf)C0ofpdIof 

laflc  ^a\?e  wro0!)t  but  won  f)oiire/anb  tbdu  i>d|le  m^c  tbctn 
cquallpnroPd  w^td>bapcboomct!)c  tiirt^cn  anb  bcaucf 
Bvtbidftmilinit)e   tf>cb<iyc, 

no'fiiiSefSt  ^^' *"<'^'*'^^  ^^ ^^^  Of tl>em/ra)^m0!)e;frenbc  3  bo  tf)c  no 

vctferbroxpabottt/  «)**cnc(e.b)?befltl)ciinota0rcx»it{)mefcrapenK  C^FctM 

biicfil  one  tf?vng  CO  W)|)»d?i6tl))?buric/«iib0ot|)yto<i)»c,  3wj?U0crerntotf)yd 

tefncoitljefumlir^  lafle/afmocbc  aeto  rf)e.y6  itnorlatofuUfor mctobo  Asme 

ut)c.S0f I?i6  lose  pa  Iyfiet()  /  tritl?  mync  awnc^  ye  rl»'ne  eye  cvyU  be  canfc  3  Am 

rte'^K  formally  are  caUeb/anbM^  ......     X^^arr 

fc  weeke  fvnners/  C:3nb3cruearccnbebtof)icruraie/anbtcFetf)e;:i|.bifciplc6  r^,  "  jf 

xrl?/ef?ramexii>erftc  apArremtf)eix>aye/anbfaibcro  t)?cfn:[o  tx>e  ^o  rppc  to  bic^  '' 

l?olv  (hall  not  rl?ere  rufAkm/artbt!)e  fonne  of  man  fpalbe  befrayeb  rnro  tbc  Ae^^ 

afrbc&X'^'  fepreftf  AnbrntotN  fcrybf/anbtby  f^aH  conbempne  J»mi 

ineffrftetavc  Ijerc  tobet|)/4nb  ^dlbelyrcr  j)yfn  totf>e0entyle/to  be  mocfcb/ 

butt  ftjalbc  rciccte  x  ro  be  fcour^eb  /  anb  to  be  aucifieb :  anb  rl>c  iq.  b^iyc  [?e  ff)aU 

pur  awflt^/  becau<>  ry|e  a0ayne. 

rerl?cvftalenge(?ic  ^^cncam  to J>ymr{)cmot{)erof5cbebei6  d>ylbrc  tcitl)  !)cr 

mrwT<^afff^  ronc6/tPot#yppf0ej>imAbefiri0eaceitaynet;)in0ccf!)im, 

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0f>t  bonbe/anb  t()e  otl)cr  on  t^y  Itfte  bonbe  in  t})y  fyngbom, 

3cfu6  anfn?ereb/«  faibe:  ye  tt>ot  not trfcat  ye  ajce.2(re  ye  able 

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{If  74'oteS^^  3fbalbe,baptyreb  trnf)  all.  But  to  fyt  on  my  rygjjt  ^onbe/or 

teb  t  Iif te  vp  an  l?y c  ^"  "^^  ^^f^^  ^onbc/y6  not  myne  to  y eve  you;  but  to  t Nni  for 

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t^Attbe  lorbf  of  tl)c  0entyl5  jji^pebominadon  orer  tf)e/2f  nb 
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let  buttbeyouremiftcr/anb  n>bofoevertrylbcd>efc/kttbym 
beyourc  fcrvannt.  ^vw  ae  t(>e  fcnnc  cf  man  cam/not  to  be 


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©e glozia  -r  bono:c  fi Itj  bommis       L I B  R I    XIIL 

DE   GLORIFICATI' 

one  iCrinimie  ipzocdfione  fpirims  fmcti   L I  BR  I    ix. 


iJApudfoBliccm  Coloniam  Annofalutis. 
Mt  D^  XKYL    Aeditio prima. 


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